Brit Ed is best
From Dan Lewis Sir: As a right-thinking Tory who went to the 86th-ranked university (out of 93) in the land, I agree with Walter Ellis and am sick of being told that my institution was worthless and my degree irrelevant (`Survival of the Richest', 28 February).
While studying languages and history, I was sent to two leading European universities — Heidelberg and Grenoble — and although we all thought the food, architecture and women looked better, there was universal agreement that the levels of teaching, resources and accommodation were vastly inferior.
I agree with making higher education more self-financing. But it's indefensible until you recapitalise the lower and middle classes with tax cuts to pay for it. Just as the worst infantry battalion in the British army can defeat almost any foreign unit, the worst polytechnic can still take on the foreign competition.
Dan Lewis
Carshalton Beeches, Surrey
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