A chara, – I welcome Peter McGuire's article highlighting the exploitative employment practices that are plaguing third-level institutions ("The increasingly precarious life of an academic", May 12th).
Such practices may reap short-term economic benefits for the institutions, but the price to pay in terms of depleted staff enthusiasm, dedication, and loyalty is far more costly in the long run. You don’t need to have a PhD to figure out why Irish universities have been losing ground in international league tables in recent years. – Is mise,
RONAN WHITE,
Monkstown,
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Co Dublin.