University teachers respond to Fine Gael’s university fees proposal
The Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) welcomes the efforts by Fine Gael to find a means of dealing with the chronic underfunding of our higher education system without doing the serious damage to participation rates which the reintroduction of undergraduate fees would inevitably cause.
“Whilst Fine Gael’s proposals would require some further discussion and fine tuning, we greatly welcome the fact that they see the huge barriers which could be caused by imposing fees of thousands of euro per annum on students”, said IFUT General Secretary, Mike Jennings.
The IFUT Press Release is available in full here. The Fine Gael proposals are available here.