“Four trade unions are to launch a joint national campaign for a No vote against the Croke Park extension talks proposals. The INMO, IMO, CPSU and Unite are all taking part in the campaign …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 6 March]
“The campaign for the USI referendum was unfair, according to DCU Students’ Union President Paul Doherty. Responding to the results of the referendum, Doherty told The College View ‘you can’t compete with an organisation the size of USI’ …” (more)
[Aoife Mullen, The College View, 6 March]
“Times Higher Education have published their reputation rankings based on data collected from the World University Rankings of 2012. They are not very interesting. Which is exactly what they should be …” (more)
[University Ranking Watch, 7 March]
“1 student recently came to me during a break in one of my Project Management classes to tell me that he found the subject ‘boring’. At least the student was honest – his body language throughout class suggested that he would rather be anywhere else than at my lecture …” (more)
[Careful With That Axe, Eugene, 6 March]
“Ireland’s Sunday Business Post newspaper is to be put up for sale. The sell-off of the title, which employs 76 people and has a readership of 140,000, is part of a complex overhaul of the ownership and financial affairs of its parent company Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited (TCH) …” (more)
[Independent, 6 March]
“Students at NUI Maynooth said they will work at charity and community initiatives this week. The raising of money for a suicide prevention and awareness group and the cleaning up of streets in the town are taking place at the same time as what has been known as ‘rag week’ usually takes place …” (more)
[Leinster Leader, 6 March]
“Many women are deterred from pursuing a career in science at the highest levels. Much more must be done to address the reasons behind this potential waste of human talent …” (more)
[Nature News & Comment, 6 March]
“The Green Open Access route, which encourages the use of institutional repositories for depositing manuscripts as drafts or after a publisher’s embargo period, seems to many in the Humanities and Social Sciences like a more agreeable way to widen access to scholarly work. Mike Taylor is not convinced …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 6 March]
“Universities are failing in their duty of care to undergraduates by ignoring the binge drinking culture and failing to help young people settle into student life, according to head teachers …” (more)
[Jonathan Brown, Independent, 6 March]
“A grass-roots rally of public servants in the education sector will take place in the Gresham Hotel Dublin at 12:00 on this Saturday 9th March 2013. All public servants are very welcome to come along …” (more)
[The Cedar Lounge Revolution, 6 March]
“… Usually, we click these licenses with even a slight bit of annoyance. Occasionally, as a nod to that annoyance, there might be a cute note next to the assent tick box that reads: ‘The lawyers made us do this’. This cuteness belies the importance of the rights that one is signing away by agreeing to these terms of service …” (more)
[Todd Carpenter, The Scholarly Kitchen, 6 March]
“Recommendations were put forward for reforming Trinity’s commercial strategy at a meeting of the University Board last December, and included recommendations for the potential development of the sports grounds in Santry and expanded commercial use of the Book of Kells …” (more)
[University Times, 6 March]
“The Irish Medical Organisation is to ballot its public service members with a recommendation to reject the Croke Park proposals. The IMO was one of four unions that walked out of the talks before their conclusion …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 6 March]
“The Irish Examiner and a number of regional print titles and broadcast investments are being acquired by Landmark Media Investments Ltd through a financial restructuring of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited after a receiver was appointed to the group …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 6 March]
“Around one in five UK university professors are female. That’s better than 3%, which was the figure in 1989. But it’s nowhere near parity – and in many parts of the world, the number of women working at the top level of academia or in senior university management positions is far worse … ” (more)
[Louise Tickle, Guardian, 6 March]
“The UCC maintenance worker killed in an accident yesterday was described by fellow staff members as ‘immensely popular’. Frank McGrath, aged 58, died after he was crushed under a cherry picker machine …” (more)
[Alan Healy, Evening Echo, 6 March]
“Deputy Anthony Lawlor asked the Minister for Education and Skills the financial supports available to Irish students studying in third level institutions in other EU member states; if financial assistance is available towards to payment of fees in these EU institutions; if a student is in receipt of back to education allowance and therefore not entitled to the maintenance grant, are supports available to study abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann Written Answers, 5 March]
“Deputy Peter Mathews asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form information regarding (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann Written Answers, 5 March]
“Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills the cost per application in the administration of processing each application for grant assistance through the Student Universal Support Ireland application process; the length of time taken to arrive at each decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann Written Answers, 5 March]
“Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reform the student grant application process for applicants including the internal workflow management processes used when dealing with applications and students in view of the problems incurred by applicants in interacting with the process in the 2012/13 cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann Written Answers, 5 March]
