Ice dolphins, string quartets and a €13k party...

All they were short were a few strippers

It's not a real party unless there was naked dwarves carrying trays of cocaine on their heads.

Signed off by Brendan Murphy himself, he of the 30k Austrian Oak desk in his office fame. Whilst the hardworking lecturers of the college sit freezing their tits off in prefabs cabins for offices.

It's not like the college has a School of Music attached to it or anything.

Complete lack of oversight at third level institutions for the last decade.

You have all the universites and bigger institutes claiming the poor mouth and hiking fees and charges every opportunity whilst pumping money into trusts and other setups to hide it from government eyes so the books look like they are barely getting by.

We dont have "fees" yet we still manage to have one of the highest third level fees in europe!.

We would do well to overhaul the entire system and pump alot of those funds into a more structured apprenticeship system and encourage students to consider them as a worthwhile avenue after school.

As a student of CIT i have been to some awards ceremonies out there that have had the string quartets and good grub along with awards commissoned from a particular artist to sculpt. Every 3rd level institution is the same.

Sure UCC down the road is claiming the poor mouth while buying up buildings all over the city.

Pay the goddamn money back, you wanna pardee? You pay. Next

suicide_circus wrote: »

Ireland shan't be free 'til the steets run red with the blood of the cosseted and preening intelligentsia!!!!

We could have a full scale revolution and within 12 months the new elite would be exactly the same as the old.
The problem in this country is that only gombeens rise to positions of power and the rest of us are too weary to do a damn thing about it.

razorblunt wrote: »

Yes, I remember that at the time as I was in the college in 2007. Sneaked completely under the radar even then!
Absolutely ridiculous carry on.

absolutely rubbish paintings as well

In IT academia, they lecture on and on about how project management, process models, requirements, delivery etc all fit neatly into established academic models where everything goes perfectly according to plan where the requirements are perfect, the development is a work of art, the testing is thorough and the end users in the business are happy. In reality, these models become completely irrelevant. Put anyone of these tenured academics into a real world IT project with budgets, deadlines and real people and they'd get a serious reality check.

And when they eventually resign and go back to academia, their leaving do will be a cake in the canteen, maybe an email to thank everyone leaving their email and a few pints later that evening that no one turns up for.

valoren wrote: »

In IT academia, they lecture on and on about how project management, process models, requirements, delivery etc all fit neatly into established academic models where everything goes perfectly according to plan where the requirements are perfect, the development is a work of art, the testing is thorough and the end users in the business are happy. In reality, these models become completely irrelevant. Put anyone of these tenured academics into a real world IT project with budgets, deadlines and real people and they'd get a serious reality check.

And when they eventually resign and go back to academia, their leaving do will be a cake in the canteen, maybe an email to thank everyone leaving their email and a few pints later that evening that no one turns up for.

what's this got to do with anything?