Briefing: Numbers don’t add up for third-level education
All of the stakeholders want major improvements, but disagree on how these will be funded
What are the options?
Twenty-five years a veteran of the Trinity College Dublin Law School, Dr Eoin O’Dell has witnessed the withering of his university. Students are dropping out of society life, disengaging from class and struggling to pay for books, laptops and third-level fees.
In lecture halls less hands are shooting up. Staff are low in morale with nothing left to give.
“There’s a lack of external understanding of how difficult it ...
