Archive for January, 2008

Extreme disappointment at recommendations of Benchmarking Body

Monday, January 21st, 2008

In it’s report issued officially today (10 January) at 16:00, the Public Service Benchmarking Body awarded no increases to academic staff in universities and awarded only a 1% increase to Senior Experimental Officers in TCD and to Chief Technical Officers in UCD, TCD and NUIG.This is an extremely disappointing outcome.update: Our press release, which we [...]

Academics vow ‘no more Mr. Nice Guy’ in future

Friday, January 11th, 2008

The report on the reaction of IFUT and the other teacher’s unions to the Benchmarking report from the ‘Irish Independent’ is available here.

Benchmarking 2 report released

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

The second report of the Public Service Benchmarking Body was released at 16:00 today, 10 January.The report is available in PDF format from the Department of Finance website. The Department’s media release is here. Tá an leagan Gaeilge la fáil anseo, and the Executive Summary of the report is available here.The remit of the Public [...]

New Website launched

Monday, January 7th, 2008

IFUT are pleased to announce that our new Website has been launched and is currently being populated with information. The new Website is partially implemented using Wordpress, an award-winning, state-of-the-art platform for designing and creating Websites and blogs. As well as continuing to have up-to-date resources and comment on items and events of interest to [...]