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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Kehoe: ...of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, IFUT, who is also representing the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU; and Mr. Colm Kelly, general secretary of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland, TUI. The University College Union, UCU; the Union of Students of Ireland, USI; the National Union of Students, NUS; the Union of Students of Ireland, USI; and SIPTU were invited to appear...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

...union federation that represents workers in all areas of the economy, North and South of the border. The IFUT is affiliated to the British and Irish Group of Teacher Unions, BIGTU, as is the TUI. As such, we bring an essential perspective to this important debate. We welcome the report on this subject produced by the committee last July and indeed the work of the rapporteur in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Mr. Colm Kelly: The TUI represents more than 21,000 teachers, lecturers and staff in education and training boards, ETBs, voluntary secondary schools, community and comprehensive schools, Youthreach programmes, institutes of technology and technological universities and those working in out-of-school services. As noted by the National Plan for Equity of Access to Higher Education 2015-2019...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: .... Does IFUT believe that the under-funding is currently one of the reasons that the HEIs have been unable individually to put initiatives in place to help to overcome the barriers to cross-Border enrolment? Does the TUI believe that the development of the technological universities can help to increase cross-Border enrolment, particularly from North to South? What support will the TUs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Mr. Frank Jones: Do I know of any unanticipated obstacles as it stands right now? Have I any inside track? No, not other than what I have said already and what the TUI has covered. We covered some of the issues related to funding and travel for students. I have not read the USI’s submission as the Deputy has done, but I have no doubt that travel is included in that. There are a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

...aware of, the speakers from the HEA and SOLAS have set out their various strategies. However, the SOLAS FET strategy is dependent on an FET staffing structure that is not in existence as yet. The TUI has for ten years been engaging on a staffing structure for the organisational design of education and training boards. As we approach the tenth anniversary of the formation of education...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Mr. Frank Jones: I think we all did that. I mentioned that we are a part, as are our colleagues in the TUI, of the British and Irish group of teachers unions. For the first time this year, we took an opportunity with all our colleagues across Great Britain to have a look at the entry requirements into tertiary education, the differences that exist and the need for those differences. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Mr. Colm Kelly: The TUI takes the position that it is time to look at the CAO system itself, with a view to establishing whether the current points system is fit for purpose given that it has not been properly analysed in the past 23 years. The CAO has made some efforts in the past few years to accommodate further education and training and apprenticeships. However, it has been very light...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I note the view of the TUI about Dundalk Institute of Technology and how that part of the island would benefit from a technological university.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion (14 Feb 2023)

...University of the Shannon, TUS and the Atlantic Technological University, ATU. Dundalk kept itself out of the process, as has the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, IADT. The TUI views this as a mistake and that the two institutions should now be seeking, possibly under a different parts of the Technological Universities Act 2018, technological university status...