Sir Peter Lampl responds to Charles Moore in The Spectator.

Charles Moore criticises the motivations of the 21 students out of the 64 who attended our Sutton Trust summer school programme who accepted places at leading US universities (The Spectator’s Notes, 29 June). This choice meant that nine of these students did not take up offers from Oxford and Cambridge.

The fact that the US universities will pay virtually all the fees and living expenses of the students, together with the breadth and depth of study on offer, were key factors in their decisions. That more than 250 universities in the US have total funds of £400 million a year for undergraduates from outside their own country who can’t afford the fees is to their credit. It does not happen here.

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