The appalling - but revealing - reference by Nicholas Soames, the Tory MP, to "polytechnic-bred louts" only serves to remind us how far we still have to go in creating not only those schools of "equal excellence" you wrote about recently but also institutions of advanced education.
The Tories left behind them a legacy of division in education that will take years to cure.
-R .G. Jenkins, Brighton
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