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• Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Amendment) Bill   General Scheme of the Bill 15 May 2017

• Expert Group on Future Funding for Higher Education chaired by Peter Cassells established June 2014   Final Report: Investing In National Ambition: A Strategy For Funding Higher Education 11 July 2016   The Role, Value and Scale of Higher Education in Ireland January 2015   Optimising Resources in Irish Higher Education June 2015   Attitudes to Higher Education June 2015   Funding Irish Higher Education: A Constructive and Realistic Discussion of the Options October 2015   Funding Higher Education in Ireland – Lessons from International Experience by Bahram Bekhradnia October 2015

• Technological Universities Bill 2015   Restored to Order Paper 1 June 2016   Report Stage (resumed) 28 January 2016   Report Stage 26 January 2016   Committee Stage 14 January 2016   Dáil 2nd Reading Debate 17 December 2015   Bill Published 14 December 2015   Joint Commitee Report 17 April 2014   General Scheme of the Bill 22 January 2014

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  • Homemakers sign up for free third-level courses (1 November) - "Hundreds of homemakers have signed up for free higher education courses as part of an initiative aimed at filling skills shortages. The Springboard+...
  • ‘I’m not married, don't have kids and don’t play golf': Limerick professor opposed to compulsory retirement (3 November) - "An Emeritus Professor said forcing people to retire from the public sector at a set age is 'discriminatory' and should be made optional as life...
  • Students Who Drop Out of College May Find It Costly to Walk Away (1 November) - "Students who find that their college course doesn’t suit them may discover it’s costly to drop out – depending on which college they’re...
  • DIT academics protest over process for technical university (31 October) - "Eighteen senior academics at Dublin Institute of Technology have written to the chairman of the college’s governing body to express dissatisfaction...
  • All public servants will now work until they're 66 years old (3 November) - "Tens of thousands of public service workers will spend an additional year in the workforce as plans are being advanced to increase the retirement age...
  • German academics step down from posts on Elsevier journals (31 October) - "A group of professors have resigned from editorial positions at Elsevier journals amid the continuing stand-off between German research organisations...
  • University of Limerick review sharply critical of HR practices (31 October) - "Shortcomings in human resources and management practices at the University of Limerick are sharply criticised in a soon-to-be-published review into...
  • IFUT calls for immediate publication of Oireachtas Report on Third-Level Funding (3 November) - "The Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) has called for immediate publication of the Oireachtas Committee Report on Third-Level Funding and...
  • Only 25% of Trinity’s Top Professors are Female (2 November) - "Out of 88 chair professors in Trinity, only a quarter are women, according to a new report seen by The University Times. The report revealed that...
  • Minister Mitchell O’Connor launches an online resource to inform Higher Level Institutions’ Student Retention Strategies (2 November) - "Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD, Minister of State for Higher Education, today 2nd of November, 2017, launched an online resource to assist higher...
  • NUI Galway trumpets all they have done for equality but says nothing about the ongoing gender discrimination cases (2 November) - "In a press release, reported yesterday by several newspapers including the Irish Independent, NUI Galway trumpeted what they have been doing recently...
  • Removal of UCD students’ union president (1 November) - "Sir, – I was utterly astonished to watch the unfolding removal of the UCD students’ union president by its own members. That a third-level...
  • Funding fears put college’s island degree in jeopardy (3 November) - "Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) has given a commitment that students will be able to finish an art degree on a West Cork island despite...
  • Irish third-level students pay second-highest fees in Europe (2 November) - "Third-level students in Ireland pay the second highest fees in Europe, according to a new report by the European Commission. While the UK has the...
  • Progress on NUI Galway's major Nun's Island masterplan (3 November) - "A design consultant will be appointed shortly to start the ball rolling on NUI Galway’s major Nun’s Island masterplan. NUI Galway’s Education...
  • Students lose out as quality of third-level deteriorates (3 November) - "By any measure the Irish third level sector is in financial crisis and students are being shortchanged. In the near-decade since the recession, Irish...
  • Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals (2 November) - "Call it a classic case of supply meeting demand. Universities, colleges, even community colleges insist that faculty publish scholarly research, and...
  • Flyers on flirting? The tricky issue of sexual consent on campus (3 November) - "The rules of the dating game are changing. For Trinity College students in Dublin nightclubs, it can help to have a flyer with advice on sexual...
  • A new type of hacking puts professors' accounts at risk (2 November) - "A former wrestler at the University of Iowa was arrested last week for his role in a high-tech cheating scheme. The student, Trevor Graves, secretly...
  • Elite universities strive for inclusivity – but only up to a point (2 November) - "A growing sense of middle-class grievance in the UK would make a radical redistribution of top university places a very difficult political sell,...
  • Abuse of female students increases each year (1 November) - "Female students are more likely to experience sexual harassment as they progress through college, according to a survey. The Smart Consent Survey of...
  • NUI Galway Publishes Progress Report on Equality and Diversity (1 November) - "NUI Galway today published a progress report on its activities relating to equality and diversity/gender equality. The report includes data on its...
  • The Strange Death of Student Loans (2 November) - "Something is afoot in higher education. A few years ago, in the Rose Garden of 10 Downing St, soon-to-be Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg made...
  • Technological Universities: A South Eastern University (28 October) - "James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to use national capital investment to create a south...
  • Trinity Trade Unions Await Temporary Contracts Decision (1 November) - "Trinity’s trade unions are expecting a decision this week on College’s reaction to the government’s advice on fixed-term contracts, which this...
  • University systems allow sexual harassers to thrive (2 November) - "Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes, Geoff Marcy. From entertainment to academia, accusations of these people's abuses of power have helped to create a sea...
  • Backlash from Board Members Over Postgraduate Fee Hike (31 October) - "Several College Board members have spoken out strongly against Trinity’s decision to increase postgraduate fees by 5%. The move has triggered anger...
  • Reshaping the tenure and promotion process so that it becomes a catalyst for innovative and invigorating scholarship (2 November) - "The metrics used to identify excellence, and on which current tenure and promotion decisions are based, have become a barrier to more exciting and...
  • Change One Thing: The Leaving Certificate is a form of child abuse (22 October) - "Educational achievement is the single most significant factor in determining a person’s life choices. Most young people get only one shot at it, so...
  • Trinity’s Fee Hike Confirms Our Fears: Postgraduates are Cash Cows (1 November) - "It is one of the great truisms of the modern academic world that neoliberalism, that creeping, ubiquitous ideology-that-is-non-ideological, has...
  • Reflections on being an associate dean (31 October) - "Today I finish a three-year term as the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning in our Faculty of Science and Health. The ADTL role is probably one...
  • I'll understand if you don't want to hear it - but the unpleasant truth must be told (15 January) - "... In his criticisms, Tol was nonetheless unfair to the ESRI. In June 2006, John Fitzgerald clearly warned that a possible recession was under way,...
  • High Prevalence and Poor Awareness of Ireland’s Mental Health Problem Clear in UCD (3 November) - "Everyone who has attended a third level institution has heard the same mantra, that the years you spend in university will be 'the best years of your...
  • NUIG above average for promotion of women (31 October) - "NUI Galway is above the national average when it comes to promoting women to senior posts, a new study reveals. In its progress report on Equality...
  • Technological Universities: IT Tallaght (25 October) - "John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the steps he has taken to ensure that the name...

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