Sir, – In response to recent correspondents on how they worked to pay their own way through college (July 15th), I would like to point out that more has changed since the 1960s than music and fashion.
Employers won’t now look at you unless you’ve done time in generally unpaid internships, and if you are lucky, you might get a zero-hours contract that offers little stability, and little money for all the trouble. Not everyone can “just get a job”. What jobs?
A lot fewer people went to college in the 1960s than do now. Third-level education would not be more accessible if we followed that outdated model. The figures do not stack up. – Yours, etc,
TOMÁS M CREAMER,
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Ballinamore,
Co Leitrim.