“Good morning. I would like to thank Professor Drury and the Royal Irish Academy for inviting me today to address and listen to such a distinguished audience on the future of Irish higher education. This Academy, founded in the latter half of the eighteenth century, has witnessed massive social change over the course of its history. Our higher education system has both influenced and confronted those changes. And it has evolved beyond recognition in the face of them …” (more)
[Ruairí Quinn, Department of Education and Skills, 30 May]
Apparently we’re supposed to believe that an office that cannot manage to format a page of HTML properly has important guidance to give us on what universities should become and how those working in them should conduct themselves.