Irish Federation of University Teachers » ESRI http://www.ifut.ie/wordpress Cónaidhm Éireannach Na Múinteorí Ollscoile (CÉMO) Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:34:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 TUI and IFUT dismiss ESRI research as ‘patently flawed’ http://www.ifut.ie/wordpress/2009/10/tui-and-ifut-dismiss-esri-research-as-patently-flawed/ http://www.ifut.ie/wordpress/2009/10/tui-and-ifut-dismiss-esri-research-as-patently-flawed/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:22:12 +0000 admin http://www.ifut.ie/wordpress/2009/10/09/tui-and-ifut-dismiss-esri-research-as-patently-flawed/ In a joint statement today, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) and Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) rejected as ‘misleading’ and ‘flawed’ the findings of an ESRI survey on a pay differential between public and private higher education staff.

The latest ESRI figures on a public and private pay differential between higher education staff are extremely misleading and yet again mischievously add to the drip-feed of misinformation supporting a patently flawed agenda. By failing to compare like with like, this piece of research is essentially redundant.

TUI General Secretary, Peter MacMenamin, said:
“To attempt to compare these completely different forms of employment is a pointless exercise that adds nothing but unhelpful clutter to any reasonable, intelligent public discourse.”

IFUT General Secretary, Mike Jennings, said:
“It is unusual that the two unions that represent third-level combine to take a stance like this. It illustrates the level of what we see as a complete misunderstanding of the essential characteristics of a valid and internationally respected education system.”

The Press Release issued jointly by the two unions is available in full here.

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