Prospects for a Private, Indigenous and For-Profit University in Dublin

摘要: The prospects for the expansion of private higher education (HE) in Ireland, culminating establishment a for-profit university near future, do not seem to have attracted great deal scholarly interest. Instead, where academics mention growth private/for-profit educa- tion, tendency is concentrate on providers intensive additional or revision coaching, known colloquially as ‘grind schools’ (Smyth, 2009). Nor did major official quasi-official reports concerning Irish HE first decade so twenty-first century discuss prospect an indigenous, being created Ireland. Here, I mind produced by/for bodies, including Department Educa- tion and Science (latterly, Skills; DES), Organisation Economic Cooperation Development (OECD), Royal Academy (RIA), state employment agency Foras Âiseanna Sathair (FAS, renamed Solas 2011), Conference Heads Universities (CHIU, since 2005 Association) state’s main proxy funding/governance, Higher Education Authority (HEA). Admittedly, various reporting authors/committees necessarily ‘have brief consider such development other than general terms (see Skilbeck, 2001; OECD, 2004; RIA, 2005; Behan et al, 2009 especially Strategy Group Education, but, overall, there sense this that has been taken very seriously.