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- Lecturer’s fluency can make students over-confident (16 May) - "I found the study below fascinating and not just because it gives me an excuse to be less than fluent when I’m teaching ..." (more)
- Dublin student wrongly accused of evading a taxi fare wins case (16 May) - "A Dublin student wrongly branded a taxi fare dodger in a viral YouTube video has won a major victory in a High Court action against tech giants...
- 55 public-paid educators earning more than the Taoiseach (18 May) - "A total of 55 staff under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills earn more than the Taoiseach, it has emerged ..." (more)
- 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...
- The Conversation UK: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers (16 May) - "What is The Conversation? A new journalism project featuring content from the sharpest academic minds. The Conversation UK is launching as a pilot...
- True innovation in Higher Ed will emerge from faculty-driven, open-source projects, not start-up commercialisation (15 May) - "Leslie Madsen-Brooks is skeptical about the kind of disruption start-ups and tech folks promise. She highlights ways university faculty and staff are...
- Impact factors declared unfit for duty (16 May) - "Regulars at this blog will be familiar with the dim view that I have of impact factors, in particular their mis-appropriation for the evaluation of...
- We don’t need no high-cost, high-brow, heavy metal education (17 May) - "They’re signing up as we speak for a two-year degree course in heavy metal music (believed to be the first of its kind), which begins in September...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- The 'Pass By Compensation' rule (17 May) - "... As someone who has benefited in the past from the PBC rule, I'm not totally in favour of abolishing this option. In 1979 against all odds I...
- 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,...
- Case Law, Ireland: McKeogh v John Doe 1 (No.2), Facebook, Google and mandatory take down injunctions (19 May) - "In November 2011, Eoin McKeogh was falsely branded as a thief on YouTube, Google, Facebook and a number of websites. This was the result of a video...
- 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...
- 'Inappropriate' for Garvey to remain as IT chairman (19 May) - "'It is inappropriate and not in the best interests of the institute' for Flan Garvey to remain as chairman of the college’s governing board,...
- Exporting Newman’s Idea of a University to China (16 May) - "... Although translated into Chinese in 1996, this work on his philosophy of education has still not had the influence that could be expected on the...
- Colleges need to produce more big data graduates to fill future jobs, EMC says (17 May) - "Multinational IT firm EMC, which recently partnered with University College Cork (UCC) on two data-focused business courses, believes that more...
- Galway get accreditation for MBA course (20 May) - "NUI Galway has become the only university in the State outside Dublin to secure a prestigious international accreditation for its MBA programme ..."...
- Declaration of independence from journal impact factor (17 May) - "The Wellcome Trust and the Higher Education Funding Council for England are among the bodies calling for the use of the journal impact factor in...
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