Don't see why art should be in the same bracket as Baked Beans????? Art (& Design) covers a hell of a lot of today's professions.

I've got four kids currently at four different Universities across the country and I can tell you for certain that the cost is ridiculously high. To cap that off I'm in my final year as well and my youngest daughter getting set to start at University in the next couple of years.



A Wakefield University is a magnificent idea for too many reasons to list here but a boost to the economy is probably one of the biggest reasons to make it happen.



A city like Wakefield needs to have a few boxes ticked such as, a cathedral, a magnificent historical Town hall, a premier sporting team playing out of a state of the art stadium, an imposing court house (reopen Wood Street) and a University.



Make it happen!

I can't see any reason not to do it - if the College administration can make a business case and students could be attracted in sufficient numbers, then it seems like a no-brainer.



The Wakefield renaissance continues unabated!

I think it would definitely get the city much wider recognition around the country. Personally I'm tired of having to explain to every new person I meet at uni that Wakefield is sort of not far south of Leeds, and I'm at Bradford Uni! Also, I think Wakefield would be an attractive city to students as well, For a city of its size it has a brilliant night life, which would only get better with a university. This would in turn would create a larger Wakefield economy.

Also, from RL point of view, it would be much better trying to explain who the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats are to a southerner. I'd much rather hear "Oh yeah! that university town" than "Wakefield....where???"

That's a matter of opinion...

Oh I know, its very subjective. A lot of people from the city don't like it that much, but for its size there is a lot of choice. It's infinitely better than Bradford's night life and Bradford is a much bigger city.



A university would probably create a separate night out in a different area as well, much like in Leeds and Bradford. Where do you suppose the students would all live? Most university towns/cities have large areas full of student housing, i suppose if Wakefield had a university there would have to be suitable accommodation to boot.

Yes if you're brought up in Wakefield, the night life is exciting for exactly 10 minutes when your about 16 but the fact is they ship coach loads in from all over the country to sample the delights of Wakey's nightlife. it's amazing how many people I've bumped into on my travels who when I mention that I come from Wakey, they've actually been here on a pub crawl.



Accommodation would be a huge problem, it's not something you can easily remedy not even by building halls of residence, of course this depends on the size of the University to start with. When I was at Uni in Hull, there was something like 23 thousand people in that City going to University and the amount of student housing was huge and spread all over the City, it would be very hard to do something similar in Wakefield even on a smaller scale.

I was referring to your assertion that an influx of students would make the night life 'better!'



I'm not really sure if Wakefield is still considered a good night out any more - it certainly was when I was of an age to be there on a regular basis and it was very much the norm to have a line of coaches at the top of Westgate dropping people off from all over the country. It was rammed from Thursday to Saturday, without fail, with another spike on Monday for 10p a pint night and latterly, the free drinks night across the road.



Thesedays, on the rare occasions I do go into Wakey, it's dead until around about the time I'm going home, when there appears to be an influx of already drunk teenagers; I gather the modern way of doing things is to get drunk at home on cheap supermarket booze, then go out later to a club that stays open til 6am or somesuch?



Kids today etc etc.

Can't blame them at the prices in town, even now I can't afford to go out on the lash in town every weekend far too expenisve, so no wonder the teenagers can't, £20 gets you nowhere.

Ooh you are a crotchety old knacker!!!

What makes you say that?