The impact of the rona on the third level sector. Across both years, of the total income loss of €348 million, 46% (or €160 million) is due to a loss in fee income from international students.
Income of Irish universities may fall by around €250 million in 2020/21, according to the PBO. Fewer international students the main reason. https://t.co/9PG5E65aGi pic.twitter.com/EwI0MIg9Cl
— John O’Brien (@jlpobrien) September 2, 2020
FIGHT!
Financial implications of COVID-19 for Ireland’s university sector (Oireachtas.ie)
Meanwhile…
“So I can tell you that university heads are as challenged about paying their bills today arising from cutbacks as anybody else” https://t.co/zbvZZjzUNn
— Joe Haslam ☘ (@joehas) September 2, 2020
Ah here.
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P. Flynn would be proud of that gobpoo.
Dunno about any of Pee’s old gaffs but, if you’re so minded, you can rent out Prez Murphys’s old place for a cool €5,500 a week.
https://fivestar.ie/self-catering/tearmann-house/
Oh noes, does this mean that some of those lefty lecturers will end up out of work?
Oh noes…..
And if they were right-leaning it would be a tragedy? Because that’s what I’m inferring from your childish comment.
It’s alright, the universities will be able to reduce their outgoings as much of their classes will be taught online. Too bad the students get shafted all the more.
What significant savings can be made from delivering the lessons online?
1. cleaning the lecture halls
2. heating the lecture halls.
3. um….
Maybe with regards to staff?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/29/wests-response-covid-shows-have-succumbed-medieval-mass-neurosis/
“If an employee can do his job from home indefinitely, so could a floating free-lancer who will be owed no security, no sick leave, no health insurance, pension benefits or parental leave. All the protections and rights which employees have won over the generations will count for nothing once managements discover that most of the functions now carried out by those in formal employment can be done anywhere by people prepared to carry out the same functions on their own premises (and providing the necessary equipment at their own expense).”
Yeah on the other hand why should tax payers and students alike have to fork over HUGE money to these big ego lecturers & cushy jobs for life Uni administrators when online learning can have the same outcome and for a fraction of the cost?
My wife was in the middle of doing a post grad when the pandemic hit, to say her college (one of the DITs or whatever they’re called now) did next to nothing is an understatement, most of the remaining lectures were just cancelled immediately, a couple moved online but only briefly, lecturers went to ground and weren’t to be heard from again, zero refund of fees of course despite the massively reduced service, they’re complete shysters!
My better half works as a lecturer at a college whose name rhymes with Sinity and to say they have received no direction on how to go about conducting classes online. The overall lack of leadership with a new term literally weeks away is astounding.
Decent piece on the issue in today’s Examiner.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-40041545.html
Cheers for that Otis.
Oh dear. Doesn’t bode well for the student accommodation blighting the streets of Dublin 8. It was built to target the lucrative international student market
Third-level institutions in appallingly run, unaccountable, foreign-fee-dependent, anti-student, profligate maladministration shocker.
Soon to be “Ireland in appallingly run, unaccountable, foreign DI Cash, anti citizen, profligate maladministration shocker”, when the full economic effects of the Pandemic and Brexit are felt
Bingo! “Yes Minister” aired the scandal of 3rd level funding some 30 years ago, plus ca change http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW7mhtp5a5E
Tis all coming home to roost now
Hospitals/ Healthcare
Housing
Childcare
Schools and now the Colleges
Just where did all those billions go huh?
The next fortnight will be a rollercoaster folks
But don’t let the ride surprise any of ye