Wednesday’s Royal Irish Academy dialogue on the future funding of higher education in Ireland made some things obvious: for one, the eagerly awaited upcoming working group report will not be recommending the introduction of a graduate tax, and that we will get the report by the end of December, as planned. It also made clear that the problem widely referred to as the “higher education funding problem” won’t exactly be countered with a radical or progressive solution, simply because the working group has been overly conscious of what has been done elsewhere, and how exactly things have worked in other countries. Since the economic crisis … Continue reading Don’t Expect Anything Innovative from the Higher Education Funding Working Group