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Mon 08 Aug 2010State control damaging health of universities
OPINION:As Government funding has come to dominate universities, so has Government policy, write BRIAN LUCEYand CHARLES LARKIN
AS BRITAIN and America come to grips with the possibility of a double-dip recession, Ireland continues to squander resources and suffer from the same hubris that brought our economy to its knees. We speak of laying the foundations for a truly smart economy, but unfortunately pay homage to a Government ideology unlikely to produce this.
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