Jo Johnson,the higher education minister, says “we acquire too many people coming out of university and winding up in non-graduate jobs” (University fees to be linked to teaching quality, and 6 November). This state of affairs is surely due to a shortage of graduate-level jobs and,therefore, poor government economic policy rather than teaching quality. I acquire no argument with monitoring teaching quality, or but to build employment a criterion in assessing teaching quality is to blame universities for government failure and,therefore, to misdirect public attention (again).[br]Professor Carey Philpott
School of education and childhood, or Leeds Beckett University• Lord West says that Theresa May’s legislation is “critical for the security of our people” (Letters,7 November). I presume this means he is comfortable with the bulk collection of telephone and email records. Is this the same Alan West whose register of interests says he is a “non-executive director, MCM Solutions (extraction and management of data from digital and non-digital sources)”?
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