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Re your story on the University of Northampton¡¯s new campus, ¡°Hot-desking appears on horizon as Waterside project nears completion¡± (News, 22 June). I remember being without a designated office space in my early teaching days and how ashamed I felt when students with severe pastoral or mental health problems broke down in tears during meetings in the corridor. I also recall how inefficient I was as a scholar with nowhere to put heavy dictionaries and textbooks.

lwahlgrensmith
Via timeshighereducation.com

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¡°Traditional offices and teaching styles will vanish at Northampton¡¯s new campus¡±, we learn. According to Nick Hillman of the Higher Education Policy Institute, it¡¯s the UK¡¯s ¡°most exciting higher education project¡±, a brave new world of what Northampton¡¯s vice-chancellor calls ¡°active blended learning¡± where ¡°students will make greater use of digital learning resources before coming to class¡±. So, not at all like having students do the reading before a seminar, as at Poppleton and other traditional universities, then?

John Holmwood
Professor of sociology
University of Nottingham

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