 At that inquiry (17 July 2008) the chairman of the House of Commons' Select Committee on Innovation, Universities and Skills accused the Quality Assurance Agency of being "toothless" and declared that the British degree classification system had "descended into farce".Alderman himself gave written and oral evidence to a subsequent inquiry of the Select Committee into Students and Universities, whose report (2 August 2009) included an endorsement of Alderman's views.In early 2012, "The Jewish Chronicle" reported that complaints were made against a column by Alderman in which he wrote that "it is well known that Charedi men are notorious harassers of the opposite sex", that these comments breached accuracy and discrimination rules.