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¡°Authors Richard Wilding and Emel Aktas found that there was no correlation between staff-to-student ratios, which they treat as a proxy for class sizes, and the TEF awards¡± (¡°¡®No link¡¯ between class size and TEF outcomes¡±, News, 28 September). What? To treat staff-to-student ratios as a ¡°proxy for class size¡± is ridiculous: a two-hour seminar of 20 and two one-hour seminars of 10 are equally possible for any given staff-to-student ratio. The teaching excellence framework is bad enough without this sort of ¡°critique¡±.

In the same issue of Times Higher Education, we are offered ¡°the experts¡¯ guide to getting published¡±. Interestingly, none of the 16 contributors see fit to suggest that having something worth saying might be a consideration. Is there a link here?

Bob Brecher
Professor of moral philosophy
University of Brighton

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