IFUT has issued a Press Release in initial response to the report by “An Bord Snip Nua”.
“This report, and, in particular, the parts of it which relate to education, will come to be regarded as one of the most short-sighted documents in Irish education history. At a time when more and more people are turning [...]
The HEA has published the Employment Control Framework for the Higher Education Sector.
This Framework was promised in the letter of 1 April from the HEA to the President/Provost of each of the seven Universities. This letter was sent in response to a letter from the Department of Finance to the Department of Education and Science [...]
In an important ruling, the Labour Court has determined that two Fixed-Term Contract Lecturers, who lost their jobs when the Department of Education closed St Catherine’s College of Education for Home Economics, must be paid the same ex-gratia redundancy as their permanent colleagues.
The Labour Court also awarded additional compensation of €2500 each to the two [...]
In a letter to The Irish Times in a further reply to Tom Begley’s article, IFUT President, Joe Brady, writes:
“Professor Tom Begley … argues for very high salaries for certain academics because that is what it takes to attract the world class. It would be a mistake to allow this viewpoint to take root in [...]
In his reply to Professor Tom Begley’s article, “Paying for a knowledge economy”, in The Irish Times on 19 September, the General Secretary, Mike Jennings, writes:
“What the Irish Federation of University Teachers found to be “truly shocking” was not that university staff can make a good case for high salaries (unlikely, don’t you think?). [...]
IFUT has called on the Irish Congress of Trade Unions not to finalise any new pay deal until threats of redundancy against university staff are resolved.
The call follows a decision by IFUT members in NUI Maynooth to ballot for industrial action, following the decision of the college to issue a compulsory redundancy notice to a [...]
IFUT has welcomed a ground-breaking decision by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to fund the cost of replacing a SFI-funded team member who was on paid maternity leave. The move will benefit many women who are employed as researchers in universities and whose projects are financed by SFI.
The move follows closely on a policy adopted by [...]