Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
Reform of Third Level Education: Discussion
3:25 pm
Mr. Ned Costello:
Yes, but there has to be an element of discipline in it. That brings us back to that general issue about public versus private sector and universal service obligation and public service obligation.
One can use the transport analogy that public higher education institutions have a public service obligation and, therefore, have to provide everything a higher education institution does - engagement, research and collaboration with industry - whereas private-----