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- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Paid for by the taxpayer.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Apart from the money element, did you not feel at any stage that there was something wrong with the practice of universities and colleges doing that under the noses of the HEA and that it stank a bit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: How do we know that? Was it investigated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Is it the HEA's intention to look at it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Why not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: We do not know that it has ceased and we do not know it was a minority practice if it has not been investigated. Are there any plans to look at this? I think it is an absolute scandal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I think there should be plans and I think there is an onus on the Department of Education and Skills to check.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Do you accept that by inflating points to a certain level it makes universities more attractive? If a person is out there flogging a university to get money into a trust fund, which can be kept at arm's length from the university, is it not in the university's best interest not to have points at a depressed level, even if it actually fits the course? Is it not in the college's or the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I am surprised that the Department of Education and Skills and the HEA take the attitude that we will just move on from here. I think the practice of colleges knowingly making sure that somebody who may be very capable of doing an assigned course is left out-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----because the college wants to inflate them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: That is not their role.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Their role is as an educator.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Do you accept then that the HEA has no intention of investigating it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: Because-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: The one thing that is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----missed from this is that the college's role is as an educator. It is to provide education. It is not there to be some sort of self-gratification, going around with inflated points and egos.
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: I am surprised that the Department of Education and Skills has taken this kind of arm's length attitude-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: -----to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: You have heard the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Higher Education Authority: Financial Statements 2014 (24 Sep 2015)
Patrick O'Donovan: You have heard the head of the HEA just say it.