DCU in Supreme Court Monday 29/6/9; end of tenure?

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A chairde,

DCU's much-deferred appeal to the eviscerating Justice Clarke judgement against them on the matter of Prof Paul Cahill is being heard Monday and Tuesday

Please look at

Supreme Court Hearing on Academic Tenure ‘Watchdog’ on Higher Education in Ireland

[berkeley]

A chairde,

DCU's much-deferred appeal to the eviscerating Justice Clarke judgement against them on the matter of Prof Paul Cahill is being heard Monday and Tuesday

Please look at

Supreme Court Hearing on Academic Tenure ‘Watchdog’ on Higher Education in Ireland

As is pretty clear, given the vitality of the recent movement about academic tenure/freedom, this us an issue that the incoming govt must face

It is fascinating that the Irish Times gave so much shelf space to the main antagonist of academic freedom in Ireland (a German now gone to a post in Scotland), to the point that it had to issue an apology about his ravings, to be seen at the bottom here;

'Everyone thought I was mad' - The Irish Times - Sat, Jul 31, 2010


Lest we forget the chair of the Irish Times trust up to 2010 was A tcd ACADEMIC nicknamed "Monsanto" for his espousal of their business approach vis a vis universities


Finally, here is a summary of the cases lost by management at DCU in pronjinki's reign;



The Horgan case;
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Sex+bi...k.-a0147232552


http://www.independent.ie/national-n...t-1166849.html


The Cahill case;

Injunction

http://universitywatchdog.wordpress....tchdog/page/4/

High court defeat for Prondzynski;

http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H20.html

Supreme court defeat for Prondzynski

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...e-1971284.html


the other case;

Labour court defeat for Prondzynski


http://www.labourcourt.ie/labour/lab...4?OpenDocument

Rights commissioner defeat for Prondzynski

http://academictenure.blogspot.com/2...own-words.html

EAT defeat for Prondzynski

http://www.independent.ie/national-n...0-2406866.html

Forgive me, but as an Irishman I am incandescent with rage that the government allowed this foreign dilettante come in and destroy the lives of hundreds of good scholars at massive cost to the taxpayer