“Enterprise Minister Batt O’Keefe TD has launched a plan to place the top 50 graduates from Irish universities in to export-led firms as part of the Graduates 4 International Growth (G4IG) programme developed in partnership with UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School …” (more)
[John Kennedy, Silicon Republic, 30 August]
“University staff, airline pilots and doctors are being targeted in an investigation by the Revenue into the employment status of workers …” (more)
[Ian Kehoe, Sunday Business Post, 29 August]
“… just over two decades ago, Ireland’s international performance in terms of the quality of scientific publications was below that of Bangladesh. The quantity of output relative to our population was well below the EU average. In the last ten years, our output has accelerated like no time in our history. We have exceeded the EU average and are now at OECD levels …” (more)
[Graham Love, Sunday Business Post, 29 August]
“Children and teenagers across the country return to school today and an education system that is failing them by teaching the right subjects in the wrong way and not teaching many valuable subjects at all …” (more)
[Independent, 30 August]
“An attack last week on the Central Applications Office (CAO) website left thousands of worried students unable to gain access to the site to accept their third-level offers. Reports suggest that this was a ‘denial of service’ attack: an attack which floods a website with fake traffic, slowing it down or causing it to crash …” (more)
[TJ McIntyre, Sunday Business Post, 29 August]
“In case any CAO applicant has failed to register this fact, today, Monday (August 30), is the closing date for acceptance of round one offers. The vast majority of applicants who intend to accept their offer had done so before the weekend, with nearly 40,000 acceptances in total so far …” (more)
[Independent, 30 August]
“It was officially entitled ‘The Report of the Special Group on Public Sector Numbers and Expenditure Programmes’, but it was known ubiquitously as An Bord Snip Nua. Published in July 2009, it was filled with politically difficult choices, including significant reform of the public services and the elimination of 17,000 state jobs …” (more)
[Ian Kehoe and John Burke, Sunday Business Post, 29 August]
“In a recent post, I sought recommendations for academic novels that I had not yet read. Someone suggested Elinor Lipman’s My Latest Grievance, which I had not read, but now I have read it and I found it very entertaining on a recent trip. Thank you for the suggestion, anonymous commenter …” (more)
[FemaleScienceProfessor, 30 August]
“When I became President of DCU in 2000, I was immediately drawn into the world of Ireland’s performing arts in various unexpected ways. Construction for the Helix, which was to be North Dublin’s main cultural centre, had begun in earnest, but we were all perhaps a little unprepared for the task of running it and making it pay (or at least not siphon off money from the rest of the system) …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 30 August]
“The Irish Times asked me to do an update of my MacGill Summer School speech for their recent Innovation Magazine. It was limited to 800 or so words, but I also took the opportunity to cross reference (both URLs are given later below) the recent article by Der Spiegel on the internet and German teenagers, and also Bill Gates’ recent observations on the future of education …” (more)
[Chrisjhorn's Blog, 29 August]
“The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s most definitive work on the language, will never be printed because of the impact of the internet on book sales …” (more)
[Alastair Jamieson, Sunday Telegraph, 29 August]
“Education officials cannot rule out the possibility that data held by the CAO, including details of candidates’ names, CAO application numbers and birthdates, may have been obtained by those behind last week’s cyber attack …” (more)
[John Downes, Sunday Tribune, 29 August]
“‘Veronica Guerin was unique, she loved the chase. She loved life with an intensity that is unusual and most of us only talk about’, said Sunday Independent Editor Aengus Fanning at the presentation of the Veronica Guerin Bursary last week …” (more)
[Independent, 29 August]
“The number of social science publications in international journals is much lower than those for the natural sciences and medicine. So the natural sciences and the medical fields dominate university rankings while the strength of universities’ social sciences scarcely contributes to their position …” (more)
[Geoff Maslen, University World News, 29 August]
“Researchers from nine European universities are developing more interactive virtual reality technology that goes beyond simple sight and sound and takes users into a world where digital movements and surroundings can actually be felt …” (more)
[Cayley Dobie, University World News, 29 August]
“The most distinctive feature of North American social science, besides its size, is the extent of the investment made in time, facilities, training and incentives for research since the Second World War, says Craig Calhoun, President of the US Social Science Research Council and a social sciences professor at New York University …” (more)
[Geoff Maslen, University World News, 29 August]
“Students at Carleton University in Ottawa will have the option of renting their textbooks from the beginning of the upcoming semester …” (more)
[University World News, 29 August]
“Yesterday’s Irish Times contained an editorial comment on higher education funding. In fact, amidst the deepening crisis facing Irish universities and colleges, one thing that has been positive is the amount of attention given to the topic by the media …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 29 August]
“Sir – There have been numerous articles this week calling for an overhaul of the points system and the introduction of a ‘fairer’ Leaving Certificate ..” (more)
[Paul O'Connor, Independent, 29 August]
“A landmark anthology of Irish poetry is set to be published charting our greatest writers such as WB Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, Seamus Heaney … and Christy Moore. Eyebrows have been raised at the inclusion of the singer songwriter among these illustrious bedfellows in the Penguin Book of Irish Verse …” (more)
[Breda Heffernan and John Spain, Independent, 28 August]
