Universities are being subjected to the same market-based, profit-driven policies that caused the crisis in the financial markets and face an increasing risk of a crisis in academic standards and credibility, David Robinson, [...]
IFUT is holding an important seminar on Saturday, 31 October 2009 in the Gresham Hotel, O’Connell Street, Dublin, entitled Will Marketisation Destroy the University Ideal?.
The seminar will hear keynote contributions from David Robinson and [...]
IFUT has warmly welcomed a Recommendation from the Labour Court that disciplinary warnings against a University Academic who had been punished for not following orders regarding his Research Plans should be quashed and expunged from his employment record.
The Labour Court also recommended (LCR 19466) that the university, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), should “proceed as swiftly [...]