I have written before about the parlous state of mathematics achievements amoung our students in Ireland.  There is a pressing need to improve maths standards and there seems to be very little consensus on how to achieve improvements.  We have had suggestions of increasing the reward for studying maths at the highest levels - by […]

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Yesterday I was at a meeting where some of the results of an independent study of our research outcomes was presented.
I was told I couldn’t see all the results, but nobody told me I couldn’t talk about the results that I did see.
The study was carried out by a Dutch company who specialise in this […]

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Ferdinand von Prondzynski has been writing about Bat O’Keefe’s allegation that some university academics only work 4 hours per week, or at least teach only four hours per week.
It is not clear why this figure came out from Bat O’Keeffe’s mouth, but it smacks of a ’softening up’ of the third level sector in an effort to […]

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