Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Special Report No. 78 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Matters Arising out of Education Audits
11:20 am
Dr. Hugh Brady:
That is the issue. The role of head of a large college or school is a very different animal. In many cases, it involves the management of budgets of €20 million, €30 million or €40 million and between 2,000 and 3,000 students in certain cases. It is a very different role where we set those individual targets in terms of CAO first preferences, total number of students recruited, international student recruitment and revenues and, in particular, postgraduate student recruitment because that carries on exchequer revenues. There are very significant external relations, fund-raising and international dimensions to it. The issue is that the roles are fundamentally different from the roles they came from.