Tuesday, August 16, 2011
DCU: why no responsible parents should send their kids there
There are many reasons why no responsible parents should send their kids
to DCU. My 17-year-old Irish daughter will not EVER go near the place,
and will attend college in Southside Dublin - or wherever else she wants
that is not DCU.
Let us start with clear illegalities;
1.DCU continues, a full decade after its initial promulgation, to have an illegal disciplinary statute on its books;
http://www.dcu.ie/info/statutes/statute3.shtml
2.DCU continues to intimidate, bribe and otherwise bully students with impunity as the Minister refuses to act;
http://academictenure.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html
3.DCU was never accredited, and its degrees have the same a priori value as “write-in” degree mills which simply give a degree for $100. This is a shame, as many brilliant faculty and students have passed through DCU;
http://academictenure.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-runs-dcu-who-owns-dcu.html
4.DCU continue to hide its criminality behind a fanciful interpretation of the 1997 universities act
http://9thlevel.ie/2011/07/21/dangerous-legal-vacuum-at-the-irish-universities/
5.The family of the second president of DCU ran a forced labour camp in WW2 as part of Stalag 8
http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/pow/stalag8b.html
Might I respectfully suggest we rename DCU as “Stalag 8c”, abolish it, and start the process of creating a real university in Northside Dublin, one under the control of a statutory body and accountable to the citizens of Ireland as the 1997 act envisages?
Seán O Nualláin Ph.D. Stanford
16u Lunasa 2011
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Let us start with clear illegalities;
1.DCU continues, a full decade after its initial promulgation, to have an illegal disciplinary statute on its books;
http://www.dcu.ie/info/statutes/statute3.shtml
2.DCU continues to intimidate, bribe and otherwise bully students with impunity as the Minister refuses to act;
http://academictenure.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html
3.DCU was never accredited, and its degrees have the same a priori value as “write-in” degree mills which simply give a degree for $100. This is a shame, as many brilliant faculty and students have passed through DCU;
http://academictenure.blogspot.com/2010/11/who-runs-dcu-who-owns-dcu.html
4.DCU continue to hide its criminality behind a fanciful interpretation of the 1997 universities act
http://9thlevel.ie/2011/07/21/dangerous-legal-vacuum-at-the-irish-universities/
5.The family of the second president of DCU ran a forced labour camp in WW2 as part of Stalag 8
http://www.wartimememories.co.uk/pow/stalag8b.html
Might I respectfully suggest we rename DCU as “Stalag 8c”, abolish it, and start the process of creating a real university in Northside Dublin, one under the control of a statutory body and accountable to the citizens of Ireland as the 1997 act envisages?
Seán O Nualláin Ph.D. Stanford
16u Lunasa 2011
