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Your coverage of the funding allocations ( THES , March 8) showed little appreciation of the harm they will inflict on many new universities.

Removing ?17 million of collaboration research funding every year will be extremely painful. Average research income for new universities is set to fall by ?457,000 a year to ?1.55 million. The average income of old universities will rise by almost ?1 million a year to ?22.1 million. It is clear that the government intends to rebuild the binary divide.

Richard Joyner
Nottingham