“Trinity College Dublin is drawing up a radical cost-cutting plan in a bid to avoid debts of €80m-€100m over the next four years. TCD Provost John Hegarty has warned a major financial crisis is looming at Ireland’s oldest university unless action is taken …” (more)
[Katherine Donnelly, Independent, 30 December]
“NUI Galway has received conditional approval from Galway City Council to build an extension to the Arts Millennium Building …” (more)
[Galway Advertiser, 30 December]
“… In a thought-provoking book, Innovation, Profit and the Common Good in Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), John Harpur, a lecturer in the Computer Science Department, National University of Ireland Maynooth, explores the current commercialization and innovation policies in higher education; the role of universities in guaranteeing economic prosperity; conflicts of interest and the questionable evidence in support of current policies …” (more)
[Michael Hennigan, Finfacts, 30 December]
“Agencies that have traditionally coached children for 11-plus exams report increased demand from undergraduates …” (more)
[Jeevan Vasagar, Guardian, 29 December]
“A number of local businesses have criticised UCC over its on-campus promotion regulations which forbid independent businesses from either flyering or postering within the confines of the university’s main Mardyke campus, although student sentiment appears to be in favour of the current rules …” (more)
[Daniel O'Carroll, Cork Student News, 29 December]
“As the argument around tuition fees and higher education funding has got hotter over recent weeks, it has not necessarily become more sophisticated …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 30 December]
“Not too, too long ago in a land not too far away … I was asked to participate in a university-wide committee that was charged with the task of setting the institution’s direction for the use of technology in teaching and learning. The committee consisted of roughly sixteen people, split more or less equally between faculty members and technology management. The effort failed on a number of levels …” (more)
[Keith Hampson, Higher Education Management Group, 29 December]
“A physics and chemistry professor at the University of Reims in France’s champagne region says the best way to pour bubbly may not be the way sommeliers currently serve the sparkling wine …” (more)
[Toronto Star, 29 December]
“The student protests that grabbed the headlines towards the end of 2010 saw the streets lined with frustrated and resentful students, angry at government policies …” (more, video)
[BBC News, 30 December]
“Despite coming under attack by congressional republicans, federal science funding has received a major and mostly overlooked boost …” (more)
[Brandon Keim, Wired, 29 December]
“Do others feel deeply patronised by the appointment of Simon Hughes to ‘frame an effective message’ about the changes to further and higher education (‘U-turn hint’, 29 December)? The government’s assumption is that those who protest have misunderstood the facts …” (more)
[Susan Matthews, Guardian, 30 December]
“Kevin Boyle, regarded as one of Ireland’s and the UK’s leading human rights academics, passed away on Sunday. Below is a column from Today’s Zaman (by Orhan Kemal Cengiz) …” (more)
[Kurdistan Commentary, 29 December]
“I recently had coffee with a dear man that has spent his entire career in textbook publishing. He told me that his industry was essentially ‘broken’. Of course, this is now a common view of textbook publishing …” (more)
[Keith Hampson, Higher Education Management Group, 29 December]
“The end of subsidies and a focus on ‘impact’-led research may force literary criticism to reconnect with the public imagination …” (more)
[Matthew Wright, Guardian, 29 December]
“Speaking at a press conference after receiving Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year, the 29-year-old revealed why he was happy to be hanging round the school …” (more)
[MusicRooms, 29 December]
“… The medium is the message, as McLuhan says. The implications for the future (and present) of higher education are substantial. The quantum of learning shrinks back down again from a book sized argument to 500 word blog post, a 6’40 second Pecha Kucha presentation or even a 140 character tweet …” (more)
[Robert Cosgrave, Tertiary21, 29 December]
“Quicker workloads measure done the better RT @9th_level_irl: 3rd level staff ‘bludgeoned’ on concessions – http://wp.me/pjiT3-5Ro” (twitter)
[Declan Jordan, Twitter, 29 December]
“As a student in a further education college, I wonder what prospects I have of getting a job with a further education certificate. When I finish this year I will have a BTEC Level 5. As I’ll be able to apply as a mature student in 2012, I’m taking the 2011-2012 year off to look for a job …” (more)
[Politics.ie, 29 December]
“A University of Ulster research director has taken the helm at an international initiative that links technology and healthcare to improve patient treatment and ease pressure on scarce resources …” (more)
[University of Ulster, 29 December]
“The threat of school and college job losses, protests over tuition fee increases, a shortage of money for new school buildings, yet a failure to agree money saving measures. Good news was hard to come by in the Northern Ireland education world of 2010 …” (more)
[Maggie Taggart, BBC News, 27 December]
