Letter: Moving the LSE to County Hall

Sir: Professor Jones (Letters, 14 August) is right, the public budget for higher education is limited. Consequently, the London School of Economics, in drawing up its plans for financing a move to County Hall, has assumed that it will not receive any more funds from the Universities Funding Council than it does at present.

There is, therefore, no question of our proposed move being contingent on the closure, or other reorganisation, of other institutions either in London or elsewhere. Our ambition is to add to and extend the range of provision of higher education in the UK, not restrict it.

Yours faithfully,

J. M. ASHWORTH

Director

London School of Economics and Political Science

London, WC2

17 August