Irish president: ‘market-driven’ universities face ‘ruination’

Michael Higgins warns campuses ‘have suffered attrition of range and depth, loss of interdisciplinary exchange, leading in too many cases to a degradation of the very scholarship and teaching for which they were established’

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June 9, 2021

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Trinity College Dublin: Mr Higgins speculated whether universities might become “the tourist attractions of the future”

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Trinity College Dublin: Mr Higgins speculated whether universities might become “the tourist attractions of the future”

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