Sir, – Paddy Cosgrave's bias towards his alma mater really has got the better of him! ("Is a Trinity degree worth more? Tech entrepreneur hits a nerve", Education, May 9th)
I direct an advanced masters programme in software engineering in UCD that has, over the years, accepted hundreds of experienced graduates from almost all the third-level institutes in the State. I dearly wish we could predict success by such a simple measure as Paddy applies, but the truth is that there are highly talented and able students in all the third-level institutes, and employers who bias themselves for or against any particular institute are putting themselves at a disadvantage in the competition to recruit excellent graduates. – Yours, etc,
Dr MEL Ó CINNÉIDE,
School of Computer
Science and Informatics,
University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4.