Madam, – The new initiative which brings together all the main higher education colleges in Dublin, launched by Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe (Home News, May 14th) is surely a step closer to Ireland having just two institutes of higher education, one in Dublin (University of Dublin?) and one covering the rest of the country (University of Ireland?).
Such rationalisation should not involve a reduction in the number of facilities – multi-campus universities flourish worldwide – but the potential savings on administration could be quite large. – Yours, etc,