Failure to fund higher education stores up problems for the future It is close to three years since the publication of the report of the expert group on funding Ireland’s third level institutions.

Third-level chiefs have warned the Government they need major investment to deliver reforms aimed at making colleges more responsive to economic and societal needs.

The recent scandals at some of our third-level institutions revealed by an RTÉ investigation could not have come at a worse time for the third-level sector in the public debate around sustainable funding.