education
Intellectual capital: Can the government afford to cut fees, increase grants and provide hundreds of millions more for third-level funding?
The government admitted last week that the third-level sector was underfunded to the tune of €307 million a year, and promised to rectify this over the next three budgets. But where will the money come from?
Criodáin Ó Murchú used to work at least 24 hours a week in shops in addition to completing 40 hours of study on his chemistry course.
“I’d finish college early on a Friday and do the extra hours at work because I needed the money,” he said.
The 24-year-old would go eight weeks without seeing his family in Mullingar in Westmeath because of the need to work over Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in shops and ...
