Report finds up to two-thirds of third-level teachers not in full-time or permanent jobs

Union says some staff earning €5,000 a year and many on insecure contracts

Forty assistant professors to be employed under five-year ‘tenure-track’ contracts

Upheaval in third-level sector escalates on Monday with industrial action at Cork IT

Union’s members express concerns over impact of technology on higher education

Ireland’s research policy runs counter to EU proposals

Opinion: Ireland’s status as one of Europe’s best-educated societies is under threat from financial starvation

Unions say staff being paid less money to do same work as colleagues in UCC

Teachers’ unions open campaign to defend third level bodies in their research

The image of the leisurely academic in an ivory tower is one that hard-pressed lecturers, suffering intense third-level education cutbacks, simply don’t recognise

Union claims proposed legislation may be unconstitutional

Minister indicates priority to be given to those on low pensions

New deal to be put to union members

Government risk destroying `fabric of industrial relations’, union agm told

Government risks “destroying the fabric of industrial relations”, AGM in Dublin was told

Members in 7 public service trade unions have now voted to reject the proposed new Croke Park agreement.