Seanad debates

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Bill, 2011: Second Stage (Resumed)

 

I am perhaps wrongly quoted but I am responsible for that myself because I said that the Hunt report was the only report we had. This was at its launch in January 2011 in the convention centre. It took a long time to put together. It stalled in the system for three or four months because the junior partner in the previous Government could not agree to some components of it. Like all reports, it is the veritable curate's egg. The last thing I wanted to do was to find fault with its contents and then look for a new report. I wanted to go with pieces in it without necessarily accepting all of its recommendations and get on with the job of reforming, modernising and improving the third level sector. The academic input into this is important. The Senator used an interesting phrase when he described the culture of the university as "collegiate rather than managerial". We might explore what is meant by that on Committee Stage.

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