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Sympathy for the technical colleges. Three Vice‐Chancellors in one week commenting on technical colleges! They have never had it so good, particularly as some of these comments showed some understanding and sympathy of their problems. Carter of Lancaster and Topping of Brunel are educationalists first, and academics second; if there is hope that apartheid in higher education can wither away it derives support from the fact that such men can now become university Vice‐Chancellors. Dr Sloman of Essex should take some tuition from them before he speaks again about technical colleges. His reported comments about the polytechnics are among the least helpful which have been made and are especially dangerous because they coincide with the views of the faction in the Department of Education and Science which is struggling to castrate the polytechnics at birth.