Let’s undertake some serious study before giving university status to institutes of technology

THREE issues affecting higher education in this country need serious debate. They are university status for institutes of technology (ITs), funding for universities, and postgraduate training.

Such debate should take account of promotions in Britain of institutions whose performances did not merit university status.

There were 26 universities in Britain the early 1960s. Each had only a fraction of the enrolments in these today. Their calibre of the student was arguably among the world’s best.