Third-level education system needs ‘structural changes’

More structural changes in the higher education system are needed as well as decisions on who funds it, Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has told university leaders.

She said reforms must continue as Trinity College Dublin provost Patrick Prendergast also told an Irish Universities Association event the current model needs a solution to its funding problems rather than a radical overhaul.

Ms O’Sullivan did not address the question of how a sustainable funding system was decided, except to say it would be decided on foot of next year’s report of an expert group.