Ms Audrey Deane:

There are many innovative ways to do it. It takes a little collective problem solving. The issues are there to be solved. Let us suppose there are six first year classes and 25 biology books for each class. If one bought all of them, even at a discount rate, it would take a good deal of money, but one need not do it like that. There is scope for leveraging parental involvement. At the moment there is a huge polarity in autonomy. People need to be brought into the equation. Perhaps my colleagues may wish to comment on this.