Madam, - Anyone who read Alison Healy's two excellent reports, "The sound of cutbacks is not music to parents' ears" and "Students criticise DIT over music course", published in your editions of May 3rd and 5th, must conclude that music education is no longer safe in the hands of the DIT. May I once again appeal to the Government to step in before the destruction of that great Dublin institution, the College of Music, is complete?
Despite wide publicity on this issue, and the well-founded concerns of students, parents, teachers and the music world in general, the Minister for Education has not yet responded in any meaningful way. Our society reacts punitively to the vandalism of property. Is cultural vandalism less important? - Yours, etc.,
APRIL CRONIN,
Arnott Street,
Dublin 8.