LaTeX is far easier to write documents, in fact this is what puts me OFF undertaking Open University and other courses, where I would submit course work I can write science documents in LaTeX, includes formulae, tables and other formatting with ease.
Only for some reason the various faculties want everything in word format.
I can understand they want to use plagarism detection, but surely that is do-able with LaTeX. But at University level there has to flexibility.
Maybe it will change one day. We can only hope.