Teacher's Pet [IrishTimes]
- Published: 23 February 2010
- Only months after the Green Party appeared to kill off the issue, the return of student tuition charges is back on the agenda.
Jim Browne, the president of NUI Galway, has won plaudits from his peers for telling it straight. Without a sustainable funding mechanism, the higher education system in this country faces a slow but steady decline in standards, he said recently.
That is also the view of several cabinet heavyweights – and not just Batt O’Keeffe and Noel Dempsey.
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