Sir, – Recent adverse publicity about the role of Irish universities in training students from countries with questionable human rights records has surprised me.
Surely the only way we will ever bring about a world that respects human rights is to educate people from those countries, and hopefully, in time, education will result in greater respect by all people for all people.
Educated people, above all, should know this, and are the last people who should advocate cutting off a high quality Irish education for the young people of those countries.
I wish to applaud the NUI and the RCSI for their continuing commitment to education both at home and internationally, and I hope that in the long term their efforts will result in greater human rights for everybody. – Yours, etc,
SEAN O’SULLIVAN,
Crossabeg, Co Wexford.