A crash course in life skills for students

A former student accommodation manager recalls one mother begging for her son to be housed in catered halls. A former student accommodation manager recalls one mother begging for her son to be housed in catered halls. Brief letters Students Letters A crash course in life skills for students Cooking lessons | Resident chef | Instant mash | Location tracking | Despairing of humanity

Regarding teaching children life skills ( Letters, 14 September ), in the 1990s I worked as a student accommodation manager. A mother phoned me devastated that her son had not been allocated catered halls. “He can’t cook,” she pleaded. Close to the end of my tether with hundreds of students to house, I retorted brusquely: “You’ve got three weeks, teach him.” Helen Barney Mumbles, Swansea