If you speak to admissions tutors about what they want from prospective students the list is long, and of course it varies from discipline to discipline. In subjects like economics, geography, history, philosophy and politics they often say they want students who are aware of current affairs, and have opinions about them.
More generally, we would hope that you all would take an interest in the news. Such matters should not be the reserve of the humanities. One of the best ways of doing this is to regularly watch debating and discussion programmes like Question Time. This is on on Thursday evenings on BBC1 from 10.35. It is meant to be balanced between the different views, but be mindful that at times it will make you very angry. This week’s edition can be found here and the programme webpage can be found here .
Mr Kydd.