Colleges have been left out of all discussions on education for far too long.

"When you tell it, it all seems so logical," a good friend said last week, "if a board were to hear this..."

Education, every day it is in the newspapers and we debate society at large about the importance of good education, teacher shortages and class sizes. While the cabinet sits mute in the hope of getting out of it to initiate much-needed structural improvements themselves. They do the same with farmers and the nitrogen crisis, Schiphol, construction, Black...