In 2002, I was illegally dismissed from
my tenured job at DCU. The “university” (which has never been
accredited) used a little-known provision in the 1990 industrial
relations act that allows single dismissals, putting every public
service job in Ireland at risk. It has never returned even the
clothes i left there, let alone my software. Several generous
settlement offers were made; I chose instead to expose the issue
through the industrial relations process, and have refused the
monies awarded to me.
Paul Cahill, the object of another
pogrom by DCU, asked me in 2008 to take over
academictenure.blogspot.com in order to expose what was going on. In
2009, before my case, I received legal advice it would damage my
chances for reinstatement. I left it up.
In 2012, Cahill destroyed the blog. I
still have maintained most of it on another blog and in my book
“Ireland in crisis”. Cahill should reinstate the blog in its
original form
However, having fought so hard for
academic tenure, it is clear to me that many - if not most – of
the academics hired since the Celtic tiger years are not fit for
purpose. A pro-active hiring on non-Irish people commenced in the
1990's leading to the likes of this;
We cannot ask Irish people to pay 100k+
for nonsense such as this event. I propose the following revision of
tenure, with staff being offered early retirement if the new
scenario, wherein they have a “hunting license” and office rather
than a guaranteed huge salary, is not appealing. MOOCS allow academics attract huge audiences;
●No-one
should lose tenure; conversely, academics should give more value for
money
●Tenure’s
elements should be distinguished; freedom from redundancy, the right
to offer courses and a place of work until 65 upheld for
“legacy” academics but pay, the right to supervise students at
graduate level and so on should be made subject to performance.
●Indeed,
there is a case for granting tenure to well-performing private
college academics
●We
are trying to free the academic process from the state and
simultaneously to ease taxpayers’ burden
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