How can you tell?

Al

I may be a bit too “inside the box” for some. Nevertheless, I am sure any issues can be overcome subject to CCP approval.

Make me an offer and I’ll get back to you.

:b

Surely you mean, “at the extrema of your linguae“?

…make no mistake about it though….this site is “nerd infested” I can see people flustering through their dictionary already gathering the largest words for show…

We all know this happens!

Hamburg U was subject to a similar regimes for years on end. At first, it is an irritant. After a decade, all coherence in teaching and research was gone.

As Brian Lucey says, the whole thing may be ultra vires: I just hope someone gets a judicial review. Anyhow if the HEA managed to exercise some meaningful budgetary control, they would not need the extra belt-and-braces of the ECF.

The whole thing is a boon to the control-freaks and the micro-managers at every level of administration.

Universities Act 1997
“50.—(1) An tÚdarás may, following consultation with all or any of the chief officers, issue guidelines on—
( a ) the numbers or grades of employees of the university, or
( b ) the proportion of the budget of the university to be applied to the different activities of the university.
(2) Guidelines issued under subsection (1) shall not be binding on a, university, and if a university departs from those guidelines An tÚdarás shall not, as a result of such departure, impose restrictions or conditions on the use of moneys paid to the university by An tÚdarás or otherwise limit moneys payable to the university by An tÚdarás.”

So its up to the Board and Council of TCD to appoint or not a successor to PH. Now, having sat on same, there are lots of issues, finance not the least, that will come into play.
One issue relating to professorial appointments relates to what they will do. There is genuine concern that some professors (not, to my knowledge in the social or human sciences) may in fact never see an undergraduate. Thats wrong, and pedagogically flawed. While we are by definition good researchers, and most are at least experienced teachers, we should be deployed across the teaching spectrum, imho. Teaching is multifaceted and incorporates postgraduate supervision as well as “chalk and talk”.

Dont talk to me about geeks.
They invented grayness

Blogs can be independent and knowledgeable and often are written by hunky men and glamorous ladies!

But I do detest that a Uni can be “run” by government even only in the imagination of a petty scribbler. H E Mencken was a true journalist as was the bloke behind Mark Twain. They always applied their cynicism before writing so as to inform the reader.

Firstly, the journalist seems to think that blogging will get you an academic promotion.

Secondly, the journalist is so ill-informed that he does not know that the powers that be at Trinity economics are heavily involved in this blog.

Thirdly, shrinking the number on the payroll by natural attrition is perchance not the fastest route to a smart economy.

@ Karl
Should you be successful, I offer my office to my eventual self financing successor so that I can take your chair. But I must be self financing!!!
Think of each lecture like a ryanair flight: premium seats 10 euros, express entry and exit of lecture hall 5 euros, Powerpoint upgrades 10 euros, lottery tickets 2 euros,
“Does anyone need a pen?” 5 euros

Al
2 euros charge for reading this

Are HEIs right to self-select out of the moratorium in the interests of academic autonomy or fulfilling their teaching/research obligations? Probably.

Would other employers of professionals in critical public services be equally justified in ignoring DoF’s circular? Probably.

So how did we end up with a putatively indiscriminate embargo being so blatantly discriminatory against sectors with an unfortunate predominance of fixed-term contracts?!

And what about this ridiculous claim that this site is for nerds? Outrageous!