Universities must merge to compete, experts say
“Irish universities need to consolidate faculties or merge entirely if they are to break back into the top tier of rankings, international experts have said. University College Dublin this week fell out of the world’s top 200 universities in the Times Higher Education rankings, just three years after it dropped out of the top 100. Trinity College Dublin also slipped, but remains in the top 150 …” (more)
[Joe Humphreys, Irish Times, 3 October]
Tags: mergers, rankings
I wish I was an international expert so I could talk unsupported nonsense and then appear on the front of the Irish Times.