Literacy crisis in schools

Madam, - Having read the alarming results of the Department of Education and Science's recent literacy survey, might I suggest…

Madam, - Having read the alarming results of the Department of Education and Science's recent literacy survey, might I suggest that the business entrepreneurs who have bestowed so much on the already privileged third-level sector now show a similarly munificent concern for primary and secondary schools, where the inequalities in Irish society continue to be maintained? - Yours, etc.,

MAUREEN FALLON,

Donnybrook,

Dublin 4.