It is budget season and happy days are here for all who celebrate. Pretty much every radio and TV programme has packages filled with overt and covert lobbyists on what, if anything, the government should spend taxpayers’ monies on, from childcare to housing to tax breaks for landlords. All these kites are going to need an air traffic controller and to be clear, higher education is no different, we’d love some extra cash too.    Even these days, when ministers can announce €1 billion of spending and it does not make the front page of the newspaper, the scale of spending…

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