Letter: Degrees of training
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Your article, 'Cutting out the cutting up' (17 December), quoted me as saying that vivisection serves no educational purpose. Your reporter did not report me correctly.
Vivisection is a necessary part of training for some students. The point I made to your reporter was that I would not expect it to be a compulsory part of a degree course in biology.
Yours sincerely,
DAVID C. WHITE
Head of Department
Department of Biology
University of York
Heslington, York
23 December
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