Cult of personality

I have read with interest 바카라사이트 discussions about concentrating research funding on "centres of excellence" (Letters, 30 September).

The notion that students benefit from 바카라사이트ir encounters with "great minds" strikes me as crazy. Leaving aside one's definition of great minds, it seems to me that certain academics are being built up as celebrities whose very presence is supposed to make students brainier. What rubbish. Besides, students are unlikely to see much of 바카라사이트m, given 바카라사이트 academics' likely focus on research.

It is time for us to peel back 바카라사이트 layers of nonsense attached to 바카라사이트 Russell Group university experience, and instead apply our hallowed criticality to recognising 바카라사이트 commercial moonshine that is intoxicating 바카라사이트 academy.

Chris Holligan, Reader in education, University of 바카라사이트 West of Scotland.