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Impact Of The Global Economic Crisis On Higher Education: Leadership And Management Challenges Preliminary Findings, Ellen Hazelkorn
Impact Of The Global Economic Crisis On Higher Education: Leadership And Management Challenges Preliminary Findings, Ellen Hazelkorn
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Rebooting Irish Higher Education: Policy Challenges For Challenging Times, Ellen Hazelkorn
Rebooting Irish Higher Education: Policy Challenges For Challenging Times, Ellen Hazelkorn
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The 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) has cast a long shadow over Ireland and Irish higher education. In 2009, the IMF (2009) said Ireland was experiencing an “unprecedented economic correction…that exceeds that being faced currently by any other advanced economy”, while Ireland’s National Economic and Social Development Office (NESC 2009) said Ireland was beset by five different crises: a banking crisis, a fiscal crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis and a reputational crisis. These circumstances provide the best explanation for the policy choices now confronting the government and higher education as they struggle to sustain the publicly-funded mass higher …