Plenty of dash, most of it slap — as my university tutor once wrote.

He was then a university tutor until 1985.

As a school head, he would regularly call his former pupils' university tutors to find out how the pupils were doing.

But university tutors need to know that students possess the academic knowledge and understanding their degrees demand.

University tutors may not know whether their students have actually passed on to the great uni in the sky because today's mass higher education system leaves them so 'swamped'.