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  The “commodification” of third level education has been criticised by Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell. Under “pressure to be relevant, universities sometimes lose sight of what led to their foundation and of what their authentic mission consists,” he said. Speaking on Monday morning via video link at an ecumenical service of fellows and scholars at Trinity College, Dublin, Archbishop Farrell commented “many of you will have seen first-hand the threat to languages – ancient and modern, to classics and to the academic study of religion in such an e...

Ohlmeyer would have done well to have framed students’ very real concerns at the core of her message, rather than try to appease us through offering an extra Trinity Ball, writes Eimear Finan.