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May I correct a matter of fact in the review by David Albury (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, December 23) of my book Degrees of Difference, higher education in the 1990s?

Far from seeking to "silence" the interviewees quoted in the book -- as alleged by Mr Albury, in its opening acknowledgements I offer the complete transcriptions of the interviews (cleaned of any personally identifying characteristics) on disc for use by students as practice in the analysis of qualitative data and, I quote, "as a check up on the veracity of the interpretation put upon them in the book".

Further, contrary to the impression given in the review of dreary Marxist orthodoxy, I also acknowledge the influence of Nietzche's pedagogy upon the book -- an eclecticism surely sufficient for even the most obdurately post-modern reviewer such as I was unlucky enough to find in David Albury.

PATRICK AINLEY, 1 Vicarage Rd, London E15