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IFUT General Secretary, Joan Donegan, recently discussed why Irish universities have not made the top 100 in world rankings in 2019 with John Walshe, Former Special A

More than 800 million women have experienced some form of violence and harassment, ranging from physical assault to verbal abuse, bullying and intimidation.

Mike Jennings represented IFUT as a member of the ETUCE (European region of Education International) delegation to the quadrennial conference of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) in Vienna from May 21 to 24, 2019.

Eurodoc is the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers ( http://eurodoc.net/ ).

My university advertised several chairs in the school at which I work over 3 years ago.  At the time I was going through an internal appeals procedure for a promotion that I did not achieve in 2014.

For over five years, Academic Staff at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, have not been represented on the Governing Board, as IFUT members continue to protest against a decision taken by the College, following a report from an external consultancy firm.

“The next Budget should provide once-off emergency funding from the surge in Corporation tax to address the escalating higher education crisis”, Joan Donegan, General Secretary of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, said in advance of IFUT’s 2019 Annual Delegate Conference in Dublin, Sat

“Over the period 2007/08 to 2014/15:

A new EU Work-Life Balance Directive has recently been agreed.

Brexit may be a moveable feast.  But the IFUT Annual Conference is here again on the second Saturday in May!

I was employed by my university on temporary contracts and despite making local inquiries on a number of occasions to get clarity I was unable to get any information regarding my status.