Professor Mary Gallagher:

I will move to the shutting down of hard subjects. We do that too. We get the students through but we also shut down hard subjects. The school of languages has been shut down totally in Coleraine in the University of Ulster. There are no language courses any more because they are too hard and too many people fail. One can see where that is going.

The next problem is compliant academics. People try to stop academics from doing what I am doing now, and I am really enjoying it because I do not get the chance to do this very much.

How does one balance education and research? These are the problems. We have to keep doing research but how do we balance the two? How do we balance educating students and at the same time doing our research?

My last point is about the teaching and learning industry. I apologise to Dr. Jen Harvey for using the word "industry" because it sounds a bit derogatory and I do not mean it in that way. How is the teaching and learning industry going to address those problems? Every institution has teaching and learning units embedded all over. They are focusing on "how", but who is focusing on the "what" and who is focusing on the "why"? I will end there because I have gone on for long enough.