{"id":2491,"date":"2016-02-05T10:33:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2016-02-05T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:33:12","slug":"crowe-joins-tui-picket-at-tallaght-institute-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-joins-tui-picket-at-tallaght-institute-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe Joins TUI Picket at Tallaght Institute of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Crowe Joins TUI Picket at Tallaght Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the picket line in solidarity of the TUI strike outside<br \/>\nTallaght Institute of Technology\u00a0 Dublin South West representative<br \/>\nSe\u00e1n Crowe TD said that the strike would help educate the general<br \/>\npopulation on the serious implications of the proposed merger with IT<br \/>\nBlanchardstown and the Dublin Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe called for any incoming government to address the concerns<br \/>\nraised by teachers and lecturers about the implications of the process<br \/>\non jobs, classes and the identity of smaller Institutes being<br \/>\nsubsumed.<\/p>\n<p>Se\u00e1n Crowe TD said;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis week I joined over 4,000 TUI lecturers and researchers who took<br \/>\npart in the one day stoppage that was supported by the Union of<br \/>\nStudents in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstitute of Technology sector funding has been cut by 35% since<br \/>\n2008 with staff numbers decreasing 10% as student numbers rose by a<br \/>\nwhopping 21,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe service that is being provided to students has inevitably<br \/>\ndeteriorated, is under further threat because staffing is inadequate<br \/>\nand because the funding is not just up to scratch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outgoing Minister for Education had tried to railroad through<br \/>\ncomplex legislation to establish technological universities but this<br \/>\nis more about rationalisation and cutbacks than it is about any<br \/>\nconcept of providing an enlightened standard of education for students<br \/>\nand fails to address a wide range of staff concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaff in precarious employment need to have their concerns addressed<br \/>\nand students deserve to be taught in lecture halls that are not<br \/>\novercrowded by staff some of whom who are clearly overworked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the technological universities project is to succeed it has to be<br \/>\nresourced. The identity of smaller Institutes cannot also just be<br \/>\nsubsumed losing its unique local identity and openness to staff,<br \/>\nstudents and local population.\u201d ENDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>NOTE TO EDITOR: Photo attached of Se\u00e1n Crowe with TUI General Secretary John MacGabhann on the picket line at IT Tallaght.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/a-IMG_0563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2492\" alt=\"a IMG_0563\" src=\"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/a-IMG_0563-300x170.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/a-IMG_0563-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/a-IMG_0563-1024x581.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/a-IMG_0563.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe Joins TUI Picket at Tallaght Institute of Technology Speaking on the picket line in solidarity of the TUI strike outside Tallaght Institute of Technology\u00a0 Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD said that the strike would help educate the general population on the serious implications of the proposed merger with IT Blanchardstown and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}