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Your article on institutions' research council success rates ("Manchester leads the cash bonanza", August 24) quotes me as saying that Cambridge 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ has recently woken up to the opportunities of research funding. In fact, I made this comment with specific reference to applications to the Arts and Humanities Research Council, where we have had spectacular results in 2006-07.

For anyone aware of the research funding landscape in the UK, it would have seemed a surreal remark in such a general context; we have for a very long time ranked highly in all other research council funding tables.

Ian Leslie
Pro vice-chancellor (research)
Cambridge 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ