clouds on the horizon?

As if to compensate for the lovely weather we've been having most of this week, two fairly gloomy reports of the meeting between the university Presidents and the Minister for Education have emerged this morning. One in the Irish Times and the other from Ferdinand the blogging President of DCU. The prospects for the short-medium term future don't sound particularly promising to say the least. Coupled with other reports regarding a redundancy scheme for the civil service, I guess we're being primed for the forthcoming budget.