A review of technological university academic career paths, contracts and organisation
in Ireland
Irish authorities are reshaping the nation’s higher education landscape, creating
a network of technological universities that merge, build on, and extend the mission
of the country’s institutes of technology. Its emerging technological universities
are tasked with providing research-informed teaching and learning across all levels
of higher education, linking their programmes to the needs of their region’s citizens,
businesses and professions. This paper was commissioned by Ireland’s Higher Education
Authority and Department for Further and Higher Education, Research and Innovation,
who asked the OECD to identify a set of benchmark higher education institutions from
other OECD countries that can provide insights for the development of future Irish
technological universities through examination of their human resource policies, career
paths and organisational structures. Drawing upon this evidence, and analysis of current
policies in Ireland’s institutes of technology and technological universities, this
analysis identifies options for new career and employment contracts and organisation
structures
Published on December 16, 2022
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