Change will help in securing ‘top-level’ staff, research funding and students, CEO says
The legal change is to be added in an amendment to the Qualifications and Quality Assurance Bill, which is making its way through the Seanad at present.
Among the obstacles which have been cited by previous governments have included the governance arrangement of the college, founded by royal charter in 1784, and the fact that staff are paid privately. The college, based on St Stephen’s Green, has about 3,500 students and trainees and is planning to expand to create a “university quarter” in the area.
“For RCSI, it describes what we are: we are a university of medicine and health sciences,” he said, “Being able to call us that is important in order to attract top calibre international staff to Ireland. There really is a war for talent for top-level international academics.”
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