Anyone can be Provost!

Just saw this, thought t'would be of interest. I remember talking to Hegarty before about how he was looking at changing the process of electing the Provost but I never thought about this. Might be interesting.

Arnold Schwarchenegger for Provost?

Irish Independent 16/07/2007

www.independent.ie/national-news/trinity-opens-up-its-top-job-to-outsiders-1038183.html



Trinity opens up its top job to outsiders

IT spells power, prestige and possibly the best address in the country - and, for the first time, outsiders can apply (and have a chance of getting the job).

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is to break with a 400-year-old tradition and open up the contest for the highly-prized position of Provost, the most senior post in the university, to external candidates.

It comes with a handsome salary of €205,168 - and there is a claim in for a 55pc pay rise for the growing challenges of the job.

One employment condition is that the incumbent live in certain architectural splendour at 1, Grafton Street, a Palladian mansion on the college grounds, the oldest inhabited 18th century house in Dublin.

Since the establishment of the college as Ireland's first university in 1592, the Provost has been elected by the college's academic community.

The term of office is 10 years and the incumbent Dr John Hegarty will leave in 2011.

Stargal

Myth wrote:

Just saw this, thought t'would be of interest. I remember talking to Hegarty before about how he was looking at changing the process of electing the Provost but I never thought about this. Might be interesting.

Arnold Schwarchenegger for Provost?

More likely to be some hotshot business person.

Ron DMC

I am so putting in a CV for the laugh.

paperclip

Ronny Mitchell wrote:

I am so putting in a CV for the laugh.

This gave me a great idea for an illustration in TN next year- a McDonald's-style application form for the provost job. Yay or nay?

Ron DMC

Definite yay. But I'm still gonna put together a real application with references and exaggeration and everything. 2011, I'll probably have a doctorate by then, I'll be well qualified.

form a charity, then become director of it

Edwardius

Hmmm, I'll be done before 2011 and hego came from the same group as I'm in now. It's destiny obviously. First orders of business: secure a nuclear arsenal for trinity, hire a troll to patrol the tunnels and I'll set about emptying the wine cellars. There's more but I can't think of it yet.

John

I might go for the 2021 position.

godtabh

What are the candidates judged on?

Ifts checking your bank balance to check to see if the €15k salary has been paid into to account I'm in!

BrenC

Start the bribes now and you'll be in by 2011