Still a lack of women in senior roles at third level, says HEA

The lack of women in senior positions in third-level colleges remains a problem, despite improvements, the Higher Education Authority has told college presidents.

Data compiled by the HEA shows that as few as one-in-eight senior academic posts are held by women in some colleges.

At NUI Galway, where a number of equality cases have highlighted problems, half of all lecturers, but just eight out of 64, or 12%, of professors, were women. Only two (13%) of 15 senior lecturers at Athlone Institute of Technology are female, even though women account for half of staff at the lowest lecturing grade.