IFUT is currently experiencing disruption to its email systems and Microsoft Teams presence because of a wider international Microsoft 365 outage.

IFUT General Secretary Frank Jones called for an immediate increase in core funding for higher education and a binding multiannual plan to close the sector’s funding shortfall at an Oireachtas hearing yesterday afternoon.

The IFUT Executive Committee has agreed to suspend the industrial action planned for 12 November while a proposed new public service agreement is considered.