Professor Barry Gusterson suggests that universities are now businesses with corporate responsibilities and says that institutions such as Glasgow University must focus on profitable departments and charge tuition fees if they are to maintain their positions on the international stage (Letters, March 8).
It is perhaps instructive to look closely at the elite institutions with which Scottish universities are competing in the world. At Ivy League universities in the United States, tuition fees play only a minor role compared to the large endowments gifted by alumni.
