It doesn’t seem like a terribly smart policy overall? Either do it and commit for the long term or don’t do it. I think it is fantasy that large research centres can exist in meaningful ways without funding at scale from the main national funder.
Yes, either do it and commit or don’t do it - halfway house just causes pain and is ultimately wasteful.
Want to find details on that course you are interested in? Well it can take as low as seven clicks to navigate there!
The glacial pace at which some stuff happens here never ceases to amazing. Example is the University website, which is very 2010. I recall going to a meeting on the new website project in 2019. Apparently a new website is on the way now, only seven years later.
A painful unwinding of the Research Centres strategy that dominated SFI funding for nearly twenty years?
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Hegseth is a Foxnews Goering
Senior Management are not “the university”: Exhibit #257. No time to consult academic staff but strangely enough time to brief journalists…🤷♂️
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Another upstanding Brexit champion.
Heard you on Drivetime, very good!
Fluent aphasia.
Fluent aphasia.
Back on Twitter in the heady days of Brexit I had an exchange with Andrew Lillico (very much in the Hannan camp) who refused to accept that Ireland is not, and never has been, part of Britain. These are not serious people, and should be roundly ignored.
“Everyone I speak to about Ivison says he’s an unusually, almost freakily, great listener…”
University leaders really do need to listen A LOT more to their colleagues who actually do the core work of the university.
manchestermill.co.uk/why-the-hell...
Proud to live in a county with such strong links to Dick Nixon.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
I wonder if they used executive search consultants.
Ooh, English Rugby, an endless cycle of hubris and nemesis.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...
Ahh, the old state versus trait question...
You Germans, with your words/operas for everything....
Someone is after printing out about 30 pages of A3 from a Reddit Antivax thread on a shared printer 👍
Somehow we are now managing to cross the streams of gaming bullshit rankings with using recruitment consultants.
I just fucking give up.
Well you won’t go far then Peter😎
What really motivated me every day is HR TRANSFORMATION (and pointing out the bleeding obvious to our betters).
You mean the guy responsible for this?
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...
I am not sure the VC responsible for this is the best spokesperson for the sector, but what do I know…
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...
I worked as a butler.
