Levelling down

I see the Scottish universities are to dumb down entry requirements for students from poorer backgrounds.

I suppose, having wrecked our internationally famous primary and secondary school education, it was only a matter of time before our politicians moved on to wreck Scotland’s tertiary education as well. It must have been galling for socialist “levellers-down” in Holyrood to see Edinburgh and St Andrews so high up in the international ratings. Yet working class academics like me in Scotland’s great senior secondaries in the 1950s would have been insulted to be told we needed aid to compete with Loretto or St Leonard’s. (REV DR) JOHN CAMERON

Howard Place, St Andrews