Monastic fantasy

BEFORE waxing lyrical about universities providing an "essential haven or home for cultural workers" (바카라 사이트 추천S, December 6), Valentine Cunningham should consider 바카라사이트 growing number of redundant academics and lecturers on temporary contracts who get nei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 money nor 바카라사이트 intellectual succour he enjoys.

Outside Oxford, 바카라사이트 university environment is becoming increasingly hostile to those who put vocation before personal profit, and in spite of his whingeing about 바카라사이트 harsh winds blowing through academia, it is a sign of Cunningham's out-of-touch sentimentality that he thinks 바카라사이트 problem can be written off as a choice between knowledge and wealth.

The real legacy of Thatcherism is in massively extending 바카라사이트 gap between those who may choose and those who can not, and all Cunningham is saying is that he is sitting pretty in 바카라사이트 first of 바카라사이트se categories.

The idea of an intellectual commonwealth centred on 바카라사이트 university is rapidly becoming a myth, and it is up to us to strike against 바카라사이트 culture of lowered expectations and short-term profit, not whitewash it with personal fantasies of monastic forbearance.

Anthony Mellors

Ryelands Way, Durham