Heated argument
WHEN Michael Murphy decided it was time to kickstart a debate on supports for the most academically gifted students a little over three weeks ago, he could hardly have anticipated the level of engagement that has followed.
At a breakfast event for Cork’s business leaders, the president of the city’s university chimed the expected bells about the underfunding of higher education and echoed complaints of fellow third-level leaders about unfair Government interference in the day-to-day running of their colleges.
