Irish Federation of University Teachers

A vice-chancellor of an English University has hit out at the British Government for encouraging people to view education as no more than a tool for getting a job.
“Too few people value education for its own sake,” and too much government education policy is “Treasury-motivated,” Mike Thorne, Vice-Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University, [...]

Ten senior members of staff in University College Dublin are earning €2.4 million between them, according to details obtained by IFUT under a Freedom of Information request. One senior academic, the Vice-President for Research, Professor Des Fitzgerald, is in receipt of a salary package worth over €400 000 per annum.The Irish Independent article is available [...]