Universities’ commitment must be matched by investment

Without radical change and serious investment, Irish students will be at a clear competitive disadvantage to their peers in every country in Europe., writes Patrick O’Shea.

Robert Kane, the founding president of Queen’s College Cork, addressed the 115 enrolled students on the day the University opened in 1849, saying: “Here, after nearly a 1,000 years, we open now the portals of this edifice and accept the task of training the youth of Munster”.