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Christopher Beedham can find out what his vote for independence will deliver if he reads Scotland¡¯s Future ¨C Your Guide to an Independent Scotland, the nationalists¡¯ vision for Scotland (¡°A vote to leave the market¡±, Letters, 3 July). There he will find the aspiration that arrangements to fund university research would remain the same as at present.

As to giving academics more power, Michael Russell¡¯s interventionist and interfering micromanagement of the colleges in Scotland shows that we might expect the opposite.

T. Hugh Pennington
Aberdeen

Andrew Miller
Edinburgh

Peter Holmes
Helensburgh