Painfully slow initiation

Far from ignoring the social divide apparent between our and our students’ use of social media and computers generally, many of us have been trying to explain this to enthusiastic innovators for decades (“Tweet harmony”, Opinion, 8 August). My worst experience was the year my (previous) institution required first-year students to log on to the system and navigate three layers of pages in order to get the details of induction.

Farah Mendlesohn
Anglia Ruskin University