26 AUGUST 1972, Page 23

Simple arithmetic

Sir: Antony Flew (August 5) has botched his arithmetic. If students spent more than thirty-three hours a week on 'academic work ', then they would have no time to get an education. And we surely can't afford to have our bureaucracies staffed by a wholly uneducated graduate class?

Grahame Leman 9 Tudor Court, Gunnersbury Avenue, London W5