“The death of the historian Peter Hart, at the age of 46, has robbed Irish history of one of its most impressively original talents. Prof Hart was the author of a series of important, compelling and – at times – controversial books …” (more)
[Irish Times, 31 July]
“When I became President of Dublin City University just over ten years ago, the country’s research community was just convulsed in a debate that came from the then recently conducted ‘Technology Foresight’ exercise that had been commissioned by the Irish government …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 31 July]
“Apprentices in Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) will be able to work in a single building from next September following the Government’s funding go-ahead for the project, according to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD …” (more)
[CorkPolitics.ie, 30 July]
“… ‘If you were going to see a doctor and the doctor said, “I’ve been really busy since I got out of medical school, and so I’m going to treat you with the techniques I learned back then”, you’d be rightly incensed,” he told me recently. ‘Yet there are a lot of faculty who say with a straight face, “I don’t need to change my teaching”, as if nothing has been learned about teaching since …’” (more)
[Jeffrey R Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, 24 July]
