David Willetts quotes:

My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years

We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.