Letter: University priorities
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Regarding your article 'Universities 'need shift of emphasis' ' (26 January), if academics do not actively carry out research, then what will they have to teach? It's about time that university heads stood up both for the vital link between research and teaching, and for the more general values which are understood anywhere but Britain, to be embodied in a university education, instead of collaborating with those who would seek their destruction.
Yours faithfully,
MICHAEL ROSENTHAL
Banbury, Oxfordshire
26 January
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