Coughlan is right

I DO not agree with your columnist Matt Cooper (August 20) when he says Education Minister Mary Coughlan is wrong to defend the Leaving Cert and not to introduce fees for third-level colleges.

Coughlan is right

The Leaving Cert is one of the few things in this country in which merit and hard work, rather being a member of an insider elite, determines success.

The introduction of third-level fees would bring us back to the period when only the well-off could go to college.

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