UCD’s Smurfit School, Ireland’s biggest business school, has a “diverse student body, which is 50% international representing more than 70 countries worldwide”, according to its website. English proficiencyIn UCC, the business school has gone to great lengths to attract overseas students. The class had 120 students, of whom around a third were overseas students from China. This lecturer was moved out of the business school to a new position that is more financially advantageous to the lecturer. Aberration or glaring deficienciesThe whole episode and its aftermath was dealt with by the authorities in UCC stepping around the inconvenient elephant in the room.

Source: Irish Examiner January 10, 2026 02:30 UTC