By Dick Ahlstrom. A consultant’s report released last week declared that third-level institutions needed to take a “more commercial approach” if they are to survive. They needed to make savings, but they were also told they should be chasing that money-generating entity, the “international student”. These students represented “an untapped opportunity” that could help relieve budgetary strictures, the Grant Thornton report argued, as revealed by Joe Humphreys, Education Correspondent, in The Irish Times. More...