Opinion: We must elevate the intrinsic value of our universities
Moreover, the current rental crisis necessitates growing numbers of Irish students either commuting from home or to undertaking part-time employment in order to cover registration fees as well as the basic costs of living. A cocktail of these contextual pressures leads inevitably to increased anxiety and stress, and a mental health crisis bubbling under the surface of our universities.
The quality and innovation of both their teaching and their research necessarily suffers. Poet Rebecca Tamás has recently written of universities as ‘places of hope, revolution, and creativity, where we can dream of different futures’ – but it is hard to see Tamás’s words carrying much weight for Ireland’s academic precariat.
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