University amends ‘discriminating’ job advert

University College Dublin has amended a job advertisement for a lecturing post to remove a condition that appeared to bar graduates from institutes of technology, writes Joe Humphreys for The Irish Times.

The job description for the biomedical engineering lecturing position included the mandatory requirement of a PhD “from a university of comparable standing to UCD”. A number of academics expressed concern to The Irish Times about the wording of the advertisement amid fresh debate this week about employers discriminating against graduates of particular institutions.

The Higher Education Authority is to discuss this broader issue at a meeting in the wake of comments by one of its board members Paddy Cosgrave about the relative value of degrees from different colleges. A spokesman for UCD described the advertisement, placed by its college of engineering and architecture, as a “mistake” and “inaccurate”.
Full report on The Irish Times site