ANNUAL 2023: ACADEMIA – ACADEMIC ‘ARSE COVERING’

Norma Foley kept parents happy with the announcement of free school books for the first three years of secondary school but she was criticised by third-level institutions over Leaving Cert grade inflation.

It hasn’t been a great year for the university sector. The glitz began to come off the new technological universities (TUs), while a couple of the longer-established unis ran into heavy weather over governance issues. They also earned a rebuke from education minister Norma Foley over their generosity in issuing honours degrees. They had criticised… Read more »