Further education gets nothing to save for rainy day

ON Wednesday I stood outside the Dáil, in the rain, with a few hundred of my TUI colleges from further education colleges throughout Ireland while Finance Minister Brian Cowen presented his giveaway budget in this time of plenty.

Further education gets nothing to save for rainy day
Fri, 09 Dec, 2005 - 00:00

I had a slim expectation that Education Minister Mary Hanafin might roll out a surprise for further education (FE) colleges in the Budget.

She was surely going to make some inroads into the implementation of her own department’s McIver report (published in 2003).

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