€4m-a-year business school plan

Proposals to raise €4 million a year through philanthropic donations to build facilities for a new school of business at University College Cork are contained in a strategy plan drawn up by a team of UCC professors.

And plans to split UCC’s College of Business and Law into a school of law and a school of business have yet to be presented to its board of governors despite a schedule that the board of the school of business should start functioning as soon as next September.

The six heads of department at the College of Business and Law’s new strategy was developed in secret without consulting other senior academic personnel in the college, and is generating intense debate on campus.