SBP editorial: Third-level funding crisis has to be dealt with

There have been warnings from universities, from business leaders and from international experts about the third-level funding crisis.

But they have gone unheeded. Now with less than three weeks to go to the budget, there has been a timely intervention by Trinity College’s Provost Patrick Prendergast.

His comments are stark. The college may need to reduce student numbers to bring its staff-to-student ratio back in line with the best universities in the world ...