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Ken Smith bemoans the fact that the University of Poppleton does not appear in the Index at the back of Times Higher Education ('You're making this up", Letters, 6 September). He may be reassured that the abilities of Jamie Targett, Poppleton's thrusting director of corporate affairs, extended to Poppleton briefly appearing in an internal list of universities put together by a junior (and somewhat naive) administrator at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Unfortunately, Poppleton did not win funding.

Nigel Brown, Former director, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Edinburgh