“Ireland’s oldest university has elected a new provost. A select group of almost 700 academics, board and council members voted to task Prof. Paddy Prendergast with leading Trinity College Dublin for the next ten years. Prof. Prendergast was chosen from an original field of six in a conclave one senior Irish academic likened to ‘Roman Catholic Cardinals electing a pope’ …” (more)
[DarkRepository, 3 April]