I'm really not sure what I think about this story from the University of Glamorgan. I think there can be extremely good reasons not to attend lectures, and that, while checking up on student attendance is not a "totalitarian" measure, it is certainly a step towards auniversity culture predicated on therapy. 
Dropping out from my first college was one of the best things I've done, and my life has been immeasurably better since dropping out. I really would not have liked to have been coaxed out of leaving.
If I were still there, I would have definitely not have been in such a good state as I am now.
