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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 ����Vlog, 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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