Government poised to use national training fund surplus to address higher education crisis

The chair of University College Cork's giverning authority is 'astounded by the short-term nature and inadequate funding of the higher education sector'. Picture: Denis Minihane

The Government is poised to use the vast surplus in the national training fund to help address the core funding crisis facing Ireland’s higher education sector.

It follows warnings from one of the country’s most respected business leaders that the annual funding arrangement has put the very viability of universities at risk.