Archive for September, 2008

Opportunities for new community stations in Ireland

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

The BCI has just issued a call for expressions of interest in new community radio stations, with a deadline of October 23rd. Expressions of Interest are an initial step in which groups encourage the BCI to issue a call for applications for specific stations (usually covering specific areas or audiences). Thus, ...

This is integration

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Amidst a BBC report on Roma migration in Europe is this note on education policy in Hungary, which : In Hungary, an earlier policy to give money to schools for the mentally disabled, to which a disproportionate number of Roma were sent, was abandoned when it was realised that it encouraged ...

Ireland should raise corporate tax rate…

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

At least that's the message I take from the IBEC statement that "the current position whereby companies are not obliged to negotiate with unions was the only competitive advantage we have" (we being Ireland). For a long time we've been told that Ireland needs to have a low corporate tax ...

Making NCA manageable

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I'm not heading to the NCA meeting myself, but some friends have been asking about ways to make it easier to find sessions of interest. I therefore offer this entry as a way for people to note and track such sessions. I hope that many of my ICR/U Illinois colleagues ...