JOHN LEONARD,
Madam, - Dr Ferdinand von Prodzynski suggests (January 29th) that it may now be time to transfer responsibility for universities away from the present Department of Education. There was also a reference to this in your Editorial of February 7th. I think that this would be a very good idea as it would allow the State to harness the full strength of the universities in achieving further and more effective prosperity in Ireland.
If I remember rightly, in the last Northern Ireland Assembly there was a separate Department for Higher Education in Belfast with its own separate Minister. Maybe we should follow this example in Dublin. - Yours, etc.,
JOHN LEONARD, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.