I HAVE never believed in university tuition fees (Letters, June 14), apart from students from abroad who should still pay them, and there is a way that we could save billions.

When some time ago it was decided that 50 per cent of students should go to university, this being a political ploy to reduce the high unemployment figures, a whole new raft of courses in subjects that were in effect no more than an extension of personal hobbies were introduced, with the resultant degree being of very little or nil worth in the jobs market.

These courses should be scrapped, with the money saved replacing tuition fees, and then a university degree will return to the value it once was.

Geoff Robb, Hunters Close, Dunnington, York