Cambridge ‘equality’

SIR – Why does Professor Stephen Toope, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, want to reduce the number of students coming from private education (report, May 5)?

He would do better trying to increase the number coming from state education. Seeking the lowest common denominator is not the way to achieve any form of “equality”; denying deserving haves is not a way to improve life for perceived have-nots. David Pearson

Haworth, West Yorkshire