economics, psychology, policy

A draft of the long awaited Hunt Report is available here . The draft is dated August 8th so it possible that the published version will dif...

The Irish Independent has an interesting piece on the socio-economic background of higher education grant recipients. In particular it docu...

Lots could be, and doubtless will be, said about the budget. But it is worth looking at some of the changes regarding education . The increa...

The news from this years' Irish Times "feeder lists" is... well not news at all since it tells a depressingly familiar tale o...

Sean Flynn in the Irish Times today emphasizes that socio-economic factors are still key in deciding whether someone attends university or ...

Martin has posted a link below to a very interesting lecture on Research and Policy Making given by Frances Ruane, director of the ESRI. Th...

This Irish Times article discusses the Green Party's apparent aversion to a new system of student charges that - apparently- the govern...

The issue of university fees and financial support for students is both complex and divisive. The need for some original but well-thought-th...

In the sometimes heated disputes about the abolition of university fees & their possible re-introduction the focus is generally on the e...

It is well known that children from high SES backgrounds do much better in school and this explains, at least proximately, the very sharp SE...

My recent paper on the non-effect of fee abolition in Ireland emphasized the socio-economic gradient in secondary school attainment: low SE...

New NBER Working Paper by Deming and Dynarski Fascinating discussion of the interplay between the benefits of targetting programmes and the ...

I've opened a thread on the fees debate on Irish Economy blog. link here

In an article in today's Irish Times , Sean Flynn reports that parents will get a discount of about 20 per cent for those who pay upfron...

Yesterday the HEA published the third Eurostudent Survey to be conducted in the Republic of Ireland; the report is available on the HEA webs...

One point about the current debate is whether a model of human capital investment where students are making forward looking choices on the b...

I was looking for the email of an old colleague of ours, Gavan Conlon, when I came across this on the BBC website which relates to work he d...

One large feature of the education debate is the perception that richer students can "buy" increments in their college entry exami...

According to the Sunday Independent, the Minister has told them that fees may be returned by 2010: link here A few points that are worth ma...

A relatively recent paper that argues that the income-contingent loan financing mechanism offers an international model that can be transfer...