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Selectively leaking quasi-legal stuff

  • 31-01-2007 11:00pm
    #1
    haz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭


    On http://www.mediabite.org/messageboard.html there is a comment about the Irish Times leaking a selective element of the unreleased enquiry into goings-on at University College Cork and saying that the Irish Times prints "Broadly, the report will be welcomed by the Wrixonites. There is some mild criticism of the manner in which the governing authority was by-passed on some decisions." The report isn't even due to be discussed by the college until mid-February.

    It's like the Irish Times is acting on behalf of someone involved with the enquiry, because it isn't news (there must be more interesting bits, if they actually have the report before publication) but it must serve some purpose.

    There's more at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/79696 about the whole enquiry thing.


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  • #2
    haz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭haz


    haz wrote:
    It's like the Irish Times is acting on behalf of someone involved with the enquiry, because it isn't news

    Now this gets interesting!

    The Head of Information at the Higher Education Authority is irate that Mary Raftery generated "misleading" negative commentary from the leaked investigation report and is concerned about "the wider issue as to whether due process and the public interest are best served by this kind of public comment on a leaked report" (Minister's blind eye in UCC row, by Mary Raftery http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/opinion/2007/0208/1170363883483.html and Row at University College Cork, by Gerry O'Sullivan http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/letters/2007/0216/index.html)

    This is ironic given that University College Cork would appear to have leaked this stuff in the first place in the hope their buddies would print favourable reports (Teacher's Pet, The Irish Times 30/01/2007 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/0202/1170363380048.html and then Inquiry clears ex-UCC head of corruption, The Irish Times 02/02/2007 http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/education/2007/0130/1169680961452.html).

    What are the "strong, clear and open mechanisms of oversight and accountability" the HEA subscribes to?


  • #3
    haz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 313 ✭✭haz


    haz wrote:
    What are the "strong, clear and open mechanisms of oversight and accountability" the HEA subscribes to?

    Does anyone know? But the Higher Education Authority has created (but not made public) a new 'Code of Governance for Irish Universities', issued in January 2007. The Governing Body of University College Cork has adopted the code and appointed a Governance Working Group which apparently needs to:

    * reform the Governing Body Committee Structure (in which the President sits on or chairs every committee, including audit and all governance oversight)
    * review the communication and interactions framework between the Governing Body and Academic Council, the University Management Group, University staff and the external world
    * review University management structures and processes (in which decisions have been made without consulting the governing body or accurately recording the decision process)

    While they are at it, UCC should release the "Report of the Independent Person – Mr John Malone" who investigated various allegations of "corruption" that might be related to corporate governance.


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