EU report urges plan to educate the educators

University lecturers and professors need to go back to school to learn how to teach, a major report into improving higher education in the EU recommends.

Chaired by former president Mary McAleese, the document warns that research has taken precedence over teaching in third-level colleges and that this must be rebalanced.

In what she describes as “good, bold realism”, Mrs McAleese and her team make 16 recommendations that they see as essential to improve the quality of education students receive, and praised the steps taken in Ireland and Britain in this area.