Madam, – Your Education Editor, Seán Flynn, reports that the National Strategy Group for Higher Education “does not accept the case made by some institutes of technology for university designation”. “Instead, it holds out the prospect of them being designated ‘technology universities’.”
Does this not send a message to second-level students and their parents that technology is in some manner an inferior field of endeavour and its study not fit for a proper university? – Yours, etc,