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		<title>Academic tenure and university statutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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The Statutes of a unversity constitute its basic law. For example, when the Charter of Elizabeth, dated 3 March 1592, founded Trinity College Dublin as the mother of a University, it afforded the College the power to adopt and amend Statutes to regulate its internal affairs. In the restatement of TCD&#8217;s Statutes which come into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academic Freedom in the Universities Act, 1997</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m sorry not to have been able to acknowledge the celebration of AFAF&#8217;s International Academic Freedom Day on the day itself by a wonderful blog carnival on the right to learn, ably convened by Deirdre Duffy, and hosted by the ever-wondrous Human Rights in Ireland blog. I&#8217;ve blogged on academic freedom on many previous occasions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology, students and universities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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There are some &#8211; related &#8211; articles in today&#8217;s Irish Independent on themes which have featured on this blog. A report published yesterday by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) shows that the number of students going to college has hit a record high (the Irish Times ran the same story under the headline that there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation, universities and patents</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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Patents encourage innovation &#8211; an inventor who is awarded a patent over an invention can exploit it and profit from it, at least according to the Irish Patents Office. Innovation therefore matters, and Innovation Dublin 2009, a week long festival of public events aimed at promoting and stimulating innovation and creativity in the city, begins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third level fees: now you see them, now you don&#8217;t!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin</dc:creator>
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The recently renegotiated Programme For Government (doc &#124; pdf &#124; scribd) between the Green Party and Fianna Fáil contains the following clause:
Conscious of the economic pressures on parents today, this Government will not proceed with any new scheme of student contribution for Third Level education.
So, that&#8217;s it then, the reintroduction of third-level fees is off [...]]]></description>
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