Nov 09 2010
Top Educational Salaries in Ireland
There is really interesting reading in The top 100 best-paid in education.
I think that to a large extent the Irish third level educational system has become inflated with its own self importance!
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November 9th, 2010 at 15:24
A friend sent me this link detailing French educational salaries: http://nicolas.tentillier.free.fr/Salaires/index.html
November 9th, 2010 at 19:18
It’s a funny contrast of stories that really shows how meaningless the figures are without context. The Irish Times story is classic minimalist begrudgery – all those overpaid ivory tower intellectuals! The French story is some pretty flaky projections on the linear reduction of salaries in the French educational sector over time – including the very intellectual friendly Einstein quote “Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it”.
November 11th, 2010 at 18:18
Great quote :) Expect to see it here soon!
November 11th, 2010 at 20:26
[…] this week I wrote about the huge, and unwarranted, costs of certain staff in Top Educational Salaries in Ireland. So today I decided to stay with expenditure in Irish education, and write about something that has […]
November 12th, 2010 at 18:35
How much do you think should the director of SFI earn?
And whom do you think you would get for that salary?
November 13th, 2010 at 20:09
@Eion – I think that all public salaries should be capped between 100,000€ and 200,000€ per annum until the economy improves. If this does not suit people, then let them join the private sector :)
November 14th, 2010 at 23:16
If only things were so easy.
Do you think the Director General is leaving SFI because he is earning less in Australia?
It will be hard to fill the post with somebody suitable, even with that salary. These people don’t grow on trees.
Without a good SFI Director General no national research strategy, no research funding, less innovation, less investment in Ireland, less hope for recovery. Do you think you could do the job?
Sure, some salaries are over the top, especially for admins. But general statements like yours do not necessarily hold.
November 16th, 2010 at 13:44
@Eion:
Things will be this easy if the EU/IMF take-over :) Good news from a tax-payer’s point of view.
Maybe I could do that job… ;)
November 19th, 2010 at 01:23
If that happens watch the exodus. The trouble is Ireland will lose all the good people, because they find all high paying jobs elsewhere. And will keep the ones that that are not capable of finding a high paying job elsewhere.
Good Night then.
November 23rd, 2010 at 17:43
@Eion – I think that the exodus started many months ago…