Leaders in Higher Education Address

This year marks the third year of the Academy’s ‘Leaders in Higher Education Address’ series, which was established to acknowledge the contribution of leading figures in higher education in Ireland and abroad.

Mr Tom Boland, former Chief Executive of the Higher Education Authority delivered the annual Leaders in Higher Education Address to the Royal Irish Academy on 9 November 2016 on the topic: The Relationship Between the Higher Education and Research Sector and Government – Fractured but Reparable. Read an uncorrected version of the speech. 

Previous Addresses

The 2014 address was delivered by the former Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, TD, while the 2015 address was delivered by Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

• Read a transcript of Ruairí Quinn’s address
• Read a transcript of Louise Richardson’s address