Ireland’s leading universities are “teetering upon a cliff-edge” and the government must invest in the sector or risk the “erosion” of Irish society as one of the world’s best educated, Irish universities have warned.
It comes as Ireland’s third level institutions face a funding gap of roughly €250 million per year amid mounting costs, inflation and growing student populations.
IUA, TCD, UCC & UCD at the Oireachtas Joint Committee….