Letter: Interactive technology presents challenges and opportunities for students

Sir: The problem with living in a post-Monty Python world is that you can never be certain when people are being serious. If we give Peter Cochrane the benefit of the doubt, his preposterous vision of the university of the future in which 'people of all ages would communicate via remote links in a continuous learning process' makes me extremely happy that, as a moribund academic, I shall no longer be around to participate.

Yours faithfully,

ROGER COCKRELL

Exeter, Devon

8 June