Chronicle of Higher Education: After enjoying rising budgets for the first, boom years of the 21st century, Ireland’s universities, like the rest of the country’s public sector, are enduring severe cuts as the Irish government struggles to cope with a deep recession. Spending on higher education was cut 5.6% in 2009 and will fall a further 9.4% this year. The Chronicle‘s Aisha Labi reports on how Irish universities are coping with the new and sudden austerity.
