Did you mean back speaker:Lord Boswell of Aynho?
Tim Boswell: ...probably not matter to me, as I am used to using the telephone, and I can even make modest use of the internet. However, for anyone who does not have those advantages, it is a long way to have to hack up to Leicester. The Minister of State has given us lots of assurances about the flexibility that he wants to see, and has spoken of using drop-in centres and other ways of dealing with the...
Tim Boswell: ...into this growing field. There are many legal difficulties on the verification of individuals. Individuals under the age of 18 should not, in principle, have their own credit cards, but they may hack into their dad's arrangements. We all know that that can be done. When delivery is made, is there a responsible person to receive it at the other end? That brings me to some points that were...
Tim Boswell: ...their market requirement. That is blue-sky stuff, but an ex-Minister can occasionally indulge in such speculation. It would, however, have another advantage, especially for institutions: we could hack through the thicket that might loosely be called the quality industry, where institutions are busy assessing their own quality and setting their own teaching standards. Such assessments are...