“A reversal to cuts in maintenance grants for thousands of mature students was called for at a demonstration yesterday evening. New students receiving the back to education allowance will not be entitled to receive the third-level maintenance grant, under a measure introduced in the last budget …” (more)
[Genevieve Carbery, Irish Times, 29 April]
“The DCU president’s blog is always worth a read, even if his latest entry arrives late at night or very early in the morning, as it did yesterday. In one of these musings, Prof Ferdinand von Prondzynski asked the previously unthinkable – are too many students going to college? …” (more)
[Independent, 29 April]
“A team of Irish researchers has developed a technology for investigating brain injury and seizures in newborn babies …” (more)
[Jennifer Hough, Irish Examiner, 29 April]
“A man charged in connection with mugging an Irish student in Chicago was refused bail yesterday. Heriberto Viramontes (30) and his girlfriend Marcy Cruz (25) are both charged with armed robbery and aggravated battery …” (more)
[Pamela Duncan, Irish Times, 29 April]
“Dr. Tony Bates is one the leading voices on the use of technology in higher education. Author of 11 books and over 350 essays, Tony now consults for organizations around the globe. ‘KCH: You’ll soon be completing your twelfth book, the latest with Albert Sangra, entitled Integrating technology in universities and colleges. I’m delighted to hear that it focuses on management issues …’” (more)
[Higher Education Management Group, 28 April]
“Science Foundation Ireland has announced research funding worth more than €25 million. The money will support 27 projects in a range of areas including energy, environment, health and telecommunications. Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Batt O’Keeffe yesterday welcomed the support, saying it would create new jobs in the smart economy …” (more)
[Dick Ahlstrom, Irish Times, 29 April]
“So, the HEA says HE needs an investment of €4 bn to cope with expected surge of students. So, government won’t pay. Then what?” (tweet)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Twitter, 28 April]
“The National Institutes of Health has added 13 lines of human embryonic stem cells to the list of those eligible for federal financing, including two of the lines most widely used by researchers …” (more)
[Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 April]
“First it was the conferring fee, now we’re back to the registration fee, and as Ecclesiastes once put it, it seems like there’s nothing new under the sun. This week we saw some strong rhetoric from the Presidents of our national universities as well as from the Higher Education Authority. It seems like the registration fee will be introduced; it’s now a case of when rather than if …” (more)
[Daniel O'Carroll, Cork Student News, 28 April]
“More than €25 million was today pledged to fund 27 research projects which the Government claims will help create new jobs in the so-called smart economy. Some 139 third-level researchers benefiting from the money are working on schemes focusing on energy, environmental protection, health, agriculture and telecommunications …” (more)
[Irish Times, 28 April]
“Sixteen new high-tech and knowledge-intensive business ventures, involving 34 individuals, have joined NovaUCD’s 2010 entrepreneurship programme. The NovaUCD 2010 Campus Company Development Programme (CCDP), which has just commenced, assists academic and research entrepreneurs at University College Dublin in bringing their innovative ideas from intellectual concepts to fully developed and sound commercial businesses …” (more)
[Irish Press Releases, 28 April]
“New York University is once again center stage in the legal and policy debate over whether graduate teaching assistants at private universities can form unions. On Tuesday, the United Auto Workers announced that it was formally asking the university to recognize a union of graduate research and teaching assistants …” (more)
[Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, 28 April]
“Robin Weiss was one of 22 prominent scientists to sign a recent letter to The Independent newspaper, endorsing the United Kingdom’s ruling Labour Party in the run-up to next week’s general election. But Weiss, a virologist at University College London, is now unsure whether he will vote Labour on 6 May …” (more)
[Geoff Brumfiel, Nature, 28 April]
“The Higher Education Authority has said in a report that the deficit for Ireland’s colleges now stands at a huge €4bn, the sum of money needed to cope with the anticipated rise by 30% in the number of students enrolling in colleges in the next 10 years …” (more)
[Cork Student News, 28 April]
“Make believe that we don’t have a higher education system in this country, but that we have just decided that we should create one. Do you think we’d create the crazy patchwork quilt that we’ve got today? I hope not. Here are some topics I’d like us to consider …” (more)
[Bill Tierney, 21 Century Scholar, 27 April]
“… Human embryonic stem cell research currently presents unprecedented public policy and regulatory challenges, with the therapies derived from hESCR having the potential to deeply affect lives but it has become an area of bioethical and public policy controversy across the world …” (report)
[Irish Stem Cell Foundation, 28 April]
“Third-level colleges are facing an unprecedented financial crisis as they struggle to cope with an additional 55,000 students over the next decade, according to an internal report by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) …” (more)
[Sean Flynn, Irish Times, 28 April]
“Two people were being questioned by police in Chicago last night in connection with the mugging and assault of an Irish student who remains in a critical condition in hospital, the Department of Foreign Affairs said …” (more)
[Steven Carroll, Irish Times, 28 April]
“The Russell Group of elite universities is concealing its plans for tuition fees until after the election, Oxford University students have claimed …” (more)
[Sean Coughlan, BBC News, 27 April]
“TCD & UCD hosted an all-day design innovation today at Foster Place. As President of Engineers Ireland, I chaired a one hour discussion panel at lunch time …” (more)
[Chris Horn, A President's Blog, 27 April]
