Letters: Surely all universities should be modern – and good for students

 Part of the Russell Group but also modern: Southampton University's Highfield campus. Photograph: UrbanLandscapes/Alamy
I was sorry to see Dr Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group of leading universities, adopting the propaganda term "the modern universities" to refer to the "post-92" (mostly ex-polytechnic) universities (Letters, 20 August). This is a term the latter have understandably coined to give themselves a positive identity compared with the established, top research

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