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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.

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 »

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