As a lecturer in an institute of technology, I profoundly resent the suggestion that somehow going to university is a better achievement than going to an institute of technology. It is wrong and misleading to suggest that drifting into a pass B.Sc. at a university is superior to doing a degree in engineering at an institute of technology. That is an offence to common intelligence. Only people who do not understand education could write such an article. We need a debate on education to rectify public perceptions on what is worthwhile in our education system.