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Sat 09 Sep 2006UCC complaints referred to HEAThe Department of Education has referred a series of complaints by a member of the governing body of University College Cork about the financial management of the university to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for consideration.A department statement said that many of the allegations made by Prof Des Clarke of financial mismanagement at UCC had been made before and it referred them to the HEA which in turn referred them to the UCC's governing body, which had found them to be groundless.