“Sir, – In 2005 Prof James Slevin, then president of the Royal Irish Academy, and I submitted an opinion piece to The Irish Times about the deteriorating state of Irish undergraduate education. The article was never published, but its opening sentence ‘Ireland’s third-level system is like a slowly sinking ship’ continues to be as true today as it was then …” (more)
[Frank Bannister, Irish Times, 15 October]