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College chiefs' warn registration fees must rise
COLLEGE chiefs have warned that a huge hike in registration charges -- now 1,500 a year -- is necessary to avert a funding crisis.
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UCC President Dr Michael Murphy yesterday said Irish universities were "very disappointed" by the Government's failure to follow the lead of most Western countries in opting for third-level fees to support university finances.
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Dr Murphy's comments were last night backed by the president of Dublin City University Dr Ferdinand von Prondzynski. He said the costs of providing the student services were at least 50pc higher than the income from the current charge of 1,500.
Anger as university staff get pay rises of up to 19%
Ireland's university staff have received recent pay increases of up to 19%, the Sunday Tribune can reveal. And because the rise was due to be implemented two years ago, many top-brass and professors are currently receiving backdated payments as well. The huge increases at a time of widespread cutbacks in the education sector have been criticised by the Irish Federation of University Teachers.
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This means over 400 professors in Ireland are in the process of receiving a pay increase of 5.5%. Bursars and secretaries will receive a rise of up to 5.1%, and presidents such as Hugh Brady at UCD and John Hegarty, the provost of Trinity College Dublin, a rise of 19%.
A spokesperson for the Department of Finance confirmed that now the unauthorised allowances have been cleared. "The Department of Education is in a position to award the rises," he said. He added however that the funding for the rises would not be coming from the Department of Finance, saying, "If universities can manage it in their own budgets, then so be it."
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Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe recently expressed his anger that university heads were still unwilling to take a voluntary pay cut. He said, "I would have exhorted the university presidents to take the appropriate cut. One would have expected that people in such senior positions would do the right thing."
This 19% increase should see most of the university presidents comfortably over the 300,000 line!
Some of the 400+ 'professors' will be earning over 400,000!
And, apart from anything else, what the heck is a small country doing with over 400 overpaid 'professors' (many of whom do precious little academic work), while some Primary School children are still in dilapidated prefabs?
Where is the Union of Students in Ireland when their voice is needed? They (and the lower paid academic and admin staff) should be bringing the universities to a standstill until the scandalous rip-off by the corrupt clique at the top is sorted once and for all!
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