Dr Paul Davis

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219 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Apr

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The Claire Byrne Show · Could the energy crisis mean a return to remote learning? · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

And as we start to plan for next year,

then we need to take account of maybe different ways of learning and different ways of doing things.

I think they're already there.

I think the reality is that educational institutions are already suffering cash flow crisis.

There's a number of them already under the HEA auspices of managing their finances because of pure management before.

The increase in energy costs is substantive for most colleges because of the number of buildings that they have to heat.

And we can kid ourselves and say that that won't threaten things, but it does.

If you add that to the crisis of...

student numbers dropping away at postgraduate, which we have a high dependency upon most colleges again.

And you've got to look at the income that comes in from an international student versus an Irish student.

It's twice the income.

So if you're losing students at 20,000 euros, you know, 100 students is starting to add up to 2 million.

That is directly impacting your cost base of running the institution.

I'm asking everybody to consider that if the business model is flawed, rather than see the institutions make a rash decision in October, November that damages the learning, to think about how we could do it upfront.

Because that's the key part here.

We can plan for this.

We did extremely well with COVID, but we reacted in.

This is not about a reaction.

This is about planning our education systems.

Well, here's the catch.

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