{"id":306,"date":"2008-03-23T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=306"},"modified":"2008-03-23T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T18:08:00","slug":"university-of-the-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"University of the South East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Whelan&#8217;s article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireland.com\">The Irish TImes<\/a> on March 22nd provides a fair view of the contents of the Port report on WIT&#8217;s section 9 application for redesignation as the University of the South East. There&#8217;s nothing in the way bar an ambiguous government policy. We don&#8217;t need another report, another review; more time, money and effort wasted. We especially don&#8217;t need the government to pander to a glut of me-too applications when groups in the region have been calling for a university <b>SINCE 1969<\/b>. As Jim Power illustrated so well in his recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.ie\">Irish Examiner<\/a> article, the South East is lagging behind economically and the government has to power to change that.<br \/>\nI sincerely hope the government don&#8217;t decide they can buy off the 450,000 + citizens of the South East with a cut-price Technical University name change together with a placatory upgrading of any other IoT. Critical mass is needed here and that means 20-25 million euro \/ year for USE in addition to the redesignation.<br \/>\nIf the government pay lip service to regional development, if they insult our intelligence with a derisory gesture, if they cling on to a favourable paragraph in the OECD 2004 report and if they fail the citizens of the South East, I sincerely hope those same citizens remember on voting day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noel Whelan&#8217;s article in The Irish TImes on March 22nd provides a fair view of the contents of the Port report on WIT&#8217;s section 9 application for redesignation as the University of the South East. There&#8217;s nothing in the way bar an ambiguous government policy. We don&#8217;t need another report, another review; more time, money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}