Mike Goldstein's extravagant encomium for Les Ebdon misses the point (Letters, 23 February). Ebdon is on record as advocating that some students should be admitted to universities by having their A-level grades artificially boosted in order to fulfil a social agenda. That Goldstein, a former vice-chancellor, should apparently find nothing untoward in this is truly shocking.
Geoffrey Alderman, University of Buckingham