“Harvard University has been listed first in the world and the University of Melbourne first in Australia in the 2013 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings …” (more)
[Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation, 5 March]
“Six elite universities in the US and UK dominate Times Higher Education‘s 2013 World Reputation Rankings. Harvard University heads a group of six ‘super-brands’ which have pulled away from the chasing pack in terms of reputation and prestige …” (more)
[Jack Grove, Times Higher Education, 4 March]
[The full ranking is here.]
“Edwin Mellen Press said on Monday that it would drop a lawsuit against a university librarian whom it had sued for writing a blog post critical of the publisher. Critics have called the lawsuit an attack on academic freedom …” (more)
[Jake New, Chronicle of Higher Education, 4 March]
“Overseas students in Sheffield are worth £120m per year to the local economy, claims a study commissioned by the University of Sheffield. The report is an attempt to quantify how much overseas students spend and also how much they consume in services …” (more)
[Sean Coughlan, BBC News, 4 March]
“Shalosh B Ekhad, the co-author of several papers in respected mathematics journals, has been known to prove with a single, succinct utterance theorems and identities that previously required pages of mathematical reasoning …” (more)
[Natalie Wolchover, Wired, 4 March]
“In an editorial for Arutz Sheva, Giulio Meotti writes that strong anti-Israeli feeling in some of Europe’s top universities has now transformed itself into a feeling of antisemitism and into violent attacks against Jewish students …” (more)
[Julia Lawrence, Education News, 4 March]
“Staff at a third level college in the city are warning of an outbreak of conjunctivitis among their student population. In the region of 30 students presented at the medical centre at Mary Immaculate College last week with symptoms …” (more)
[Aine Fitzgerald, Limerick Leader, 4 March]
“The Dublin Evening Herald is to be renamed and rebranded. The Independent News & Media (INM) title will be called The Herald and will be marketed as a morning paper …” (more)
[Roy Greenslade, Guardian, 4 March]
“In the beginning, the technology gods created the Internet and saw that it was good. Here, at last, was a public sphere with unlimited potential for reasoned debate and the thoughtful exchange of ideas, an enlightening conversational bridge across the many geographic, social, cultural, ideological and economic boundaries …” (more)
[Dominique Brossard and Dietram A Scheufele, New York Times, 2 March]
“It seems that Google just can’t past this whole ‘stop pirating our bylines’ thing these days: the German lower parliament approved a bill requiring Google (and other search engines) to pay a licensing fee for re-publishing bylines of news stories …” (more)
[Liam Boogar, Rude Baguette, 4 March]
“Fianna Fáil Public Expenditure Spokesperson Sean Fleming TD has called on the Government to come forward with answers to a number of key questions on the proposed update to the Croke Park agreement …” (more)
[Fianna Fáil, 4 March]
“Lighter, stronger, more fuel-efficient airplanes; more powerful, better targeted drugs, and paper thin high-definition televisions – it has all become possible as scientists became adept at the manipulation of tiny ‘nano’ particles …” (more)
[Science Spinning, 4 March]
“A team of mathematicians from University College Dublin UCD has set a world record by breaking the code used by the security industry to protect credit cards and bank account details online …” (more)
[Science Spinning, 4 March]
“The blood of murdered Wexford woman Nicola Furlong tested positive for two drugs which have previously been implicated in date rape cases, a Tokyo court heard today …” (more)
[Paul Murphy, Independent, 4 March]
“There has been not insignificant anxiety in US higher education about the inappropriate use of social media by student athletes and universities are looking to monitor activity much more closely …” (more)
[Registrarism, 4 March]
“SIPTU President Jack O’Connor has called on the Government to reach out to unions who pulled out of the Croke Park Agreement talks …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 4 March]
“The technologist-as-trickster is a fixture of our age. Pacing the stage at a tech conference, unencumbered by notes or even the reliance on a podium, with multiple huge video screens hanging above showing the trickster in full stride …” (more)
[Joseph Esposito, The Scholarly Kitchen, 4 March]
“Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has signalled that he is willing to compromise on controversial changes to the means test for college grants …” (more)
[Michael Brennan, Independent, 4 March]
“Sir, – Your science correspondent (Home News, February 26th) and Editorial (February 27th) cast an unnecessarily negative light on the €300 million investment by Science Foundation Ireland and industry into the seven new research centres …” (more)
[Gerard Wrixon, Irish Times, 4 March]
“… The document created under the mantle of the Irish Universities Association forms part, regrettably, of a wider societal tendency to ‘policy up’ well understood ethical precepts. Time and money is spent on stating the very obvious at very great length …” (more)
[John McCafferty, Irish Times, 4 March]
