Madam, - Now that the presidents of Irish Universities wish to be considered as CEOs of business enterprises and paid accordingly, one presumes that:
1.Academic councils will henceforth become boards of directors that are remunerated accordingly and are empowered to dismiss the CEOs if they do not make sufficient profit for the shareholders (i.e. the students and staff).
2.Professors and heads of department will become senior managers and therefore, like the presidents, can expect to receive large salary increases.
3.Lecturers will become managers, and also expect to be paid accordingly.
In these changing times, clearly scholarship, basic research and teaching are unprofitable. How Cardinal Newman must be turning in his grave! - Yours, etc,
BRIAN E. LEONARD, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, NUI Galway.