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Blogs and discussion

These Irish blogs are all devoted to higher education, or some aspect of it:
creative Head space
Education Ireland
Ernie Ball’s Blog
Hidden History of UCD
IFUT
IReL News
Read Around Research
Summa cum laude
Tertiary21
University Blog on Academic Tenure in Ireland
USI Equality Blog
9th Level Ireland (this blog)

These Irish blogs have a wider remit, but frequently include discussion of (or relevant to) higher education:
Aidan Kane
Antimatter
A President’s Blog by PJ Rudden
A President’s Notebook
A Trinity Tale
Bart Busschots
Belfield
Brian M Lucey
Cearta
Chrisjhorn’s Blog
Colum McCaffery’s Weblog
Cork Economics
DarkRepository
Economic Incentives
FMRSI
Frank Gannon’s Blog
Hugh Sullivan’s Blog
Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM
Inside View from Ireland
Irish Debate
Irish Law Forum
Irishscience
Jono Clifford’s Blog
Kevin Denny: Economics more-or-less
Learning Technologies
Liam Delaney
Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog
Paddy Healy’s Blog
Pennybridged’s Weblog …
Prof Jimmy Hill, National College of Ireland
Pue’s Occurrences
Rebecca Murphy’s Blog
Science, society, stuff …
simondobson.org
Stephen Kinsella
Tallyman
Techno-culture
The Irish Economy
The Norman Wyse Commentary
The provisional university
University Blog

Irish student newspapers:
An Focal
Cork Student News
SIN
The College View
The Gown
The University Observer
The University Times
Trinity News

Some student university discussion boards are on open access:
DCU (boards.ie)
NUI Galway (boards .ie)
NUI Maynooth (boards.ie)
Trinity (boards.ie)
UCC (boards.ie)
UCC (forum.ucc.ie)
UCD (boards.ie)
UL (boards.ie)

Here are some international blogs with an interest in higher education:
21st Century Scholar
4Humanities
A Crumbling Ivory Tower?
A don’s life
A Lecturers Life
Beerkens’ Blog
Ben Goldacre
BishopBlog
BlogHighEd
Bullying of Academics in Higher Education
Burnt-out Adjunct
Changing Higher Education
Critical Mass
Curious Librarian
David Petrie: Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy
DrBadgr
Effervescent Librarian’s Blog
e-LiME
Female Science Professor
GlobalHigherEd
hEaD space
Higher Education Management Group
How the University Works
In the Dark
Intersecting sets
Ivory Tower Blues
Living in interesting times
Parar Bolonha
Pardon My Ignorance
Registrarism
Research Blogs
Retraction Watch
Scholarship 2.0
Talking Teaching
The History Woman’s Blog
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
The storm breaking upon the university
The Traveling Scholar
UCU
University Politics
University Ranking Watch

Twitter mentions
Draft Public Service Agreement
("Croke Park 2")
'Supporting a Better Transition from Second Level to High Education', published 27 March 2013
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