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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?
  • Michael Brennan
  • May 8, 2022
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Class struggle: the mounting pressures faced by Ireland’s teachers

Long and demanding hours, low salaries and a rising cost of living are just some of the many factors forcing an increasing number of teachers to leave this country for better conditions. What can be done to stop the squeeze?
  • Catherine Healy
  • May 7, 2022

Expected move by Harris on third-level funding likely to spark division between FF and FG

Minister for Higher Education is bringing a long-awaited policy document to cabinet next week, but he faces a challenge to convince Fianna Fáil that cutting student fees is the best course of action
  • Michael Brennan
  • April 30, 2022

Demand for third-level courses ‘not aligned to skills needs’

Minister for Further Education Simon Harris said courses in areas such as ICT, construction and health would be prioritised
  • Daniel Murray
  • March 13, 2022

University of Limerick got legal threat over report into €8m site purchase

University says it is unable to publish KPMG report into acquisition of Dunnes site until threat is ‘reviewed’
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 22, 2022

Universities say state funding a ‘fraction’ of what’s required to tackle investment gap

Universities association says government’s funding plans have done little to address the underlying core funding deficit in the sector
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 21, 2022

UCD seeks fundraising agent to tap donations from Chinese investors

College aims to seek support from Chinese-dominated IIP visa programme, after professors warned of political interference on campus
  • Killian Woods
  • February 6, 2022

Call for school inspectors to go back into classrooms

As staff shortages bite due to Covid-19 and self-isolation, there are calls for Norma Foley, the Minister for Education, to send inspectors in as substitute teachers
  • Michael Brennan
  • January 9, 2022

Analysis: Schools will re-open, the next challenge is to keep them open

Government faced pushback from unions but opposition parties agreed that term should start tomorrow as planned
  • Michael Brennan
  • January 5, 2022

State withheld capital grant from Limerick university amid concerns over €8m site purchase

Department paused payment of €2.5m grant to UL after it was heavily scrutinised for the acquisition of a former Dunnes Stores site in 2019
  • Donal MacNamee
  • December 15, 2021

Academics say UCD’s next president should review its relationship with China

Concerns have been raised that the Confucius Institute has been allowed to teach a course on Chinese politics on UCD's campus
  • Barry J Whyte,
  • Aaron Roganand
  • Cónal Thomas
  • December 12, 2021

Study app helps Leaving Cert students improve their performance

Ekker looks at a student’s working habits and helps them to use their time more efficiently
  • Lorraine Courtney
  • October 24, 2021

‘Trust and safety’ course aims to support content moderators

Griffith College and Kinzen, the digital anti-disinformation company, have partnered to create a diploma course for this ‘under-resourced’ sector
  • Rosanna Cooney
  • October 11, 2021

Leaving Cert ordinary-level Irish exam is ‘not fit for purpose’, says politician

FF backbencher and ex-Irish teacher Pádraig O’Sullivan says the exam is far too difficult for most students and that many are leaving pages blank
  • Michael Brennan
  • October 10, 2021

Day care deferral option now available to all teens with disabilities

Success of pilot project to encourage 1,700 school leavers with disabilities to continue education and training has led to it being made permanent
  • Michael Brennan
  • September 28, 2021

Solas chief aims to change the culture around apprenticeships

Andrew Brownlee of Solas, the state training agency, wants to boost the number of Leaving Cert students opting to take up apprenticeships as training courses and apprenticeships will appear for the first time on the CAO website from November
  • Michael Brennan
  • September 26, 2021

State supports on way for non-traditional apprentices

Employer complaints have spurred the government to expand off-the-job training wages to apprentices in fields such as auctioneering, accounting and insurance
  • Michael Brennan
  • September 26, 2021

Plans for National Children’s Science Centre to be cancelled

The €37 million project unlikely now to go ahead due to other pressing demands on spending
  • Michael Brennan
  • September 19, 2021

John Walsh: Universities will fail without the reintroduction of fees

It’s painfully obvious that if the current funding model doesn’t change, then third-level institutions will remain starved of investment
  • John Walsh
  • September 5, 2021

Government abandoned cutting PUP to ‘dual support’ students

The pandemic unemployment payment as well as the Student Universal Support Ireland grant was being paid to 7,000 students studying remotely, but the government backed off cutting their PUP for fear of a backlash
  • Michael Brennan
  • September 5, 2021

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