“This is an interesting talk and panel discussion coming up tomorrow at 7pm in Earlsfort Terrace, looking at events in that very building in 1968 when students declared a ‘Liberated UCD’ and student activism was at its peak across Europe …” (more)
[Come here to me!, 17 October]
“Just a third of the 35,000 students attending university in Northern Ireland are Protestant, according to new figures. That means around two-thirds of people at Northern Ireland’s universities are from a Catholic background …” (more)
[BBC News, 17 October]
“A ‘no-frills’ university college offering teaching seven days a week and degrees for around half the price of traditional universities will start recruiting students next week. Coventry University College will focus on professional courses including accounting, law and marketing, at a maximum cost of £4,800 for a full-time degree student …” (more)
[Jeevan Vasagar, Guardian, 17 October]
“Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen’s has been named as number one in the UK by Thomson Reuters. The information provider for professionals and businesses places the QUB department at number 23 in the world, ahead of Oxford and Cambridge …” (more)
[Emma Gallen, The Gown, 17 October]
“A group of protestors who disrupted a lecture at Queen’s have been described by a disciplinary report as ‘probably Catholic’. The report details the investigation into the protest and was used at the disciplinary hearings of three protestors. It was received from a whistleblower who had concerns about the disciplinary process …” (more)
[Ben Finch, The Gown, 17 October]
“On Facebook, late Friday evening, a somewhat plaintive status update from Nick Griffin: ‘Trinity College Dublin surrenders to PC fascism and far-left intimidation. Debate cancelled!’ It is probably of little comfort to Griffin that he has replaced David Irving as the transgressive darling of Irish debating societies …” (more)
[Gavan Titley, Guardian, 17 October]
“The British Library has been criticised by booksellers for linking to Amazon on its public online catalogue. The catalogue lists more than 13 million of the library’s items along with a link to buy the item from the online retailer …” (more)
[BBC News, 17 October]
“A University College Dublin (UCD) society is to face an official university inquiry after being suspected of wreaking forestry havoc near the Goats pub in Goatstown. The society was earlier forced to apologize to the pub for the chaos it caused on the night out …” (more)
[Jamie Hanlon, StudentNews.ie, 17 October]
“A former Mayo county manager, Des Mahon, has been appointed chairman of the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology governing body. Mr Mahon has been appointed to the position for a five-year term by the Minister for Education & Skills, Ruairí Quinn …” (more)
[Galway Advertiser, 13 October]
“The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has conceded that it made mistakes in Bahrain regarding its treatment of medical personnel. It was responding to an article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) that criticised its conduct in the Gulf state …” (more)
[Susan Mitchell, Sunday Business Post, 16 October]
“Last Tuesday, in the My Education Week column in the Irish Times, Paddy Prendergast, the Provost of Trinity College Dublin (and thus my boss) wrote a diary of his working week …” (more)
[Eoin O'Dell, Cearta, 17 October]
“Flannoraks of all types gathered yesterday at Trinity College Dublin for the final day of Flann 100, a centenary celebration of the writer Brian O’Nolan’s birth. In attendance at the cultural programme were scientists and artists, journalists and writers, academics and students, and Flann fans of all ages …” (more)
[Sara Keating, Irish Times, 17 October]
“Hundreds of hard-up Irish students are secretly arranging short-term relationships with loaded ‘sugar daddies’ to pay their way through college. Attractive Irish undergraduates are in huge demand from wealthy, middle-aged Americans …” (more)
[Nick Bramhill, Irish Examiner, 17 October]
“The administration and student centre at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), which ran €6 million over budget has been chosen as one of the world’s best-designed education buildings …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 17 October]
“Last month I was at a meeting in the University of Maryland Library, and for some reason, the meeting room was absolutely freezing, so during a coffee break I took a walk round the shelves to try and warm up. For some reason my eye was caught by ‘Trinity Tales’, a set of stories cum reminiscences about life in Trinity College, Dublin, in the sixties …” (more)
[Stuff 'n other stuff, 17 October]
“A late scoring burst helped UCC claim their 10th title at Pairc Uí Chaoimh yesterday. Having led by four points at half-time, the students looked to have lost momentum as Castlehaven drew level with five minutes left, but a Daithi Casey penalty, followed by two points from Gavan O’Grady, completed a county title and Sigerson Cup double for the college …” (more)
[Independent, 17 October]
“Have we come to a higher education turning point? Are we entering a phase of history in which a university degree is going to be seen as a waste of time, effort and money? …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 16 October]
“October 16th is a special day for mathematics and physics in Ireland. On this day, we commemorate the discovery of quaternions by William Rowan Hamilton, the great Irish mathematician and astronomer …” (more)
[Antimatter, 16 October]
