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Is HEA using OECD for return of college Fees?
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Monday February 16, 2004 18:21 by Grudge Report
The drop in CAO numbers was reported on the front page of last Wednesday’s Irish Times. However it only briefly mentioned that the OECD is currently working on a report of the third level sector here. What it didn’t mention though was that this was at the behest of the Higher Education Authority. Also going unreported is the fact that the OECD heaped praise in a report (following an IMF heaping similar praise) upon Blair’s top up fees in January. I wonder if the HEA and the Dept of Education are expecting an OECD change of heart, in regards to it’s future report for our colleges? These two institutions are not impartial they are "neo-liberal" or even "dogmatic", given that both the IMF and the OECD have a view of the world that was forged in the inflationary 1970s and has remained unchanged ever since. These institutions were long ago seized by those who believe as a matter of ideology that low tax economies are superior to high tax economies, that the private sector is to be preferred to the public sector, and that any government which pursues an alternative agenda is heading for inflation and bankruptcy. But what they fail to recognise is that counter-cyclical fiscal policies have contributed to Britain’s that superior performance. Keynesian (Franklin D Roosevelt/Hugo Chavez style) economics has worked. |
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OECD ‘to recommend reintroduction of college fees’
16/02/2004 - 08:13:32
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is reportedly set to recommend the reintroduction of third-level fees in Ireland.
Reports this morning said a review of the Irish third-level system by the OECD would also recommend mergers or closer ties between some universities and institutes of technology.
Last year, Education Minister Noel Dempsey was forced to abandon his plans to reintroduce college fees following widespread opposition to the policy, particularly from his Government colleagues.
The fees were abolished about a decade ago in an effort to make third-level education more affordable to the less well-off.
Young Fine Gael have today said that June' s local elections could be about to turn into a referendum on the re-introduction of colleges fees. This follows reports today of proposals by the OECD to re-introduce college fees in Ireland.
Young Fine Gael President William Lavelle states: "YFG are completely against college fees and we will campaign for the local elections with the aim of encouraging young people to get out and vote to keep free education by voting Fine Gael.
"Last month, we made a submission to the OECD review in which we outlined our belief that in order to drive real & profound social and economic progression in Ireland, that the state must invest more in higher education.
"Any further state investment should be seen as investment in the future which will reap both an economic and social return to the state in the form of increased economic competitiveness, increased tax revenue and reduced social welfare and criminal justice costs.
"In our submission we also made clear our view that the state must not place any financial burdens, no matter how small, before prospective entrants to higher education. Education is a right, not a privilege, and should never be treated as a commodity to be bought. Every citizen should have equal access to education, no matter what their background."
Lavelle added: "We don't buy the idea of the re-introduction of fees only the 'well-off'. In reality, the number of families in the state who would be in a position to comfortably afford the enormous costs of both fees and maintenance is so small that if fees were to be re-introduced, then to make the system work, middle-income families would end up paying the fees.
"Young Fine Gael also is completely opposed to the introduction of any form of student-loan system. Ireland already has one of the highest levels of personal debt in the world. It would be completely wrong to burden young graduates with an automatic debt of €20,000+ on the day they start work.
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The full text of Young Fine Gael's submission to the OECD Review of Higher Education in Ireland can be viewed online at www.yfg.ie