Public Sector Staff Remuneration(15 May) - "Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of personnel in whole-time equivalent terms in his Department and in...
Percentage of Academic/Non-Academic Staff(10 May) - "Figures were released (via Dáil written answers) for Irish third-level institutions of the percentage of staff that are academic and non-academic...
Watchdog to review how ITT degrees are validated(14 May) - "Ireland’s qualifications watchdog is to carry out a statutory review of the validation processes for postgraduate research degrees at Institute of...
Teacher’s Pet(14 May) - "Plagiarism row: what next? It’ll be interesting to see what happens next in the Institute of Technology Tralee plagiarism story. On the one hand...
College chairman cleared of plagiarism plans PhD(15 May) - "A college chairman who was cleared of plagiarising his Master's thesis is considering enrolling as a PhD student at the same institute. Flan Garvey...
John Naughton and Education for a Networked World(13 May) - "Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week's programme, Professor John Naughton, who is Vice-President of Wolfson College Cambridge,...
Woman takes over as head of Royal Irish Academy(15 May) - "The Royal Irish Academy has appointed a woman as chief executive for only the second time in its 228-year history. Laura Mahoney was acting chief...
Day in the life of an economics lecturer(13 May) - "I hate mornings. Really. If mornings were my bed, I’d sleep on the floor. But we’ve all got to deal with the things. So up I get around 7,...
Academics up in smoke(14 May) - "I should start this post by declaring that I have never been a smoker. When in my youth all around me were smoking, I somehow avoided it. I tried it...
Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion(15 May) - "Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, but he's known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where...
Have PhD … Will Travel - Part II(11 May) - "Because newly-minted PhD graduates far outweigh the number of tenure-track positions (read about the sobering statistics here), many will have to...
The integrity of universities(14 May) - "There’s a very interesting (in my opinion) article by George Monbiot in the Guardian today. The article is called Oxford University won’t take...
Flan Garvey plans return to IT Tralee board(16 May) - "A former mayor of Clare has defended payments and expenses of €18,000 he received from a third-level institution, stating it was his entitlement as...