USI tells business to fund schools
He said the Government was boasting about creating a knowledge-based economy on one hand while it cuts budgets for third-level colleges on the other.
“Education Minister Noel Dempsey and his colleagues are talking about increasing access to higher education but Social and Family Affairs Minister Mary Coughlan has refused to even meet us for the past two years about restrictions in the Back to Education Allowance,” Mr Priestley said.
