The Irish higher education authority is eager to promote the kind of education and training that leads directly to jobs.
Harriet Wallberg, who was president of the university when Macchiarini was hired, was fired from her current job as chancellor of the Swedish higher education authority on Monday.
"There was need for changes anyway, but obviously now working against a background diminished resources, it brings an urgency," said Malcolm Byrne, a representative of the higher education authority.
In early 2013, the higher education authority is expected to release "New Education Landscape," a report that will outline how higher education institutions, including Ireland's seven universities, might collaborate or merge.
Now the Obama administration is pressing states to get public school and higher education authorities working together.
Beginning last year, the state's higher education authorities have been treating American citizens born in the United States, including graduates of Florida high schools who have spent their entire lives in the state, as non-residents for tuition purposes if they can't demonstrate that their parents are in the country legally.
This could only be eventuated with the full cooperation and commitment of the higher education authorities and the industrial and professional bodies.
Like many of the people hired by the private sector, McDonnell cut his teeth and established his reputation in the state sector, rising to become chief education officer in Richmond-upon-Thames, then the highest achieving local education authority for key stage 1 and 2 results.
But we are coping.' At GCSE last year, Slough pupils achieved 56.5percentnt grades A* to C, the 10th highest score of any education authority nationally and more than 10 percentage points higher than the English average.
The cuts to higher education, local authorities and arts funding add up to a comprehensive attack on cultural development.
