“Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Education and Skills the different salary scales for the different grades of lecturer in the National University of Ireland Maynooth; and the increments or reductions they have received since 2008 …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann, 15 May]
“Deputy Anne Ferris asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a breakdown of all unauthorised allowances to each of the senior academics for the 2005 to 2011 period; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann, 15 May]
“The Union of Students’ in Ireland (USI) national ‘preferendum’ ran into a major technical hitch on its first day of operation after it emerged that former students had been able to vote on the poll, designed to assess current college students’ feeling towards how best to fund third level …” (more)
[StudentNews.ie, 16 May]
“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI)’s online ‘Funding Vote’ has been called into question after it emerged that database errors allowed former and part-time students to vote and some students who had been registered for courses in more than one college to vote more than once …” (more)
[Rónán Burtenshaw, Trinity News, 15 May]
“The first day of the online USI vote on third level funding did not go as smoothly as the organisers would have hoped. It was discovered early in the day that former students of NUI Maynooth, DIT and UCD were being allowed to vote in the online poll, giving rise to complaints that the final tally would be distorted and therefore invalid …” (more)
[Ronan Costello, University Times, 15 May]
“New figures show universities paid almost €8 million in unauthorised allowances to senior academics over a six-year period. The allowances were paid between 2005 and 2011 without the approval of the Higher Education Authority (HEA). This is despite legislation that stipulates its approval must be sought …” (more)
[Carl O'Brien, Irish Times, 7 May]
“Thousands of university staff, including senior lecturers and college heads who earn six-figure salaries, are entitled to have their children’s college fees paid by the State as a perk of the job …” (more)
[Claire O’Sullivan, Irish Examiner, 30 April]
“On Thursday April 26th, the Politics and Sociology Society of NUI Maynooth held a show of solidarity outside the Arts Block with fellow student Jerri Ann O’Sullivan who has found herself at the centre of the Garda Ombudsman’s ‘Rape Comments’ investigation in Rossport …” (more)
[Leonie Delaney, The Student Observer, 27 April]
“Files that were deleted from the camcorder at the centre of the ‘rape tape’ controversy were linked to one of the women’s academic studies, it emerged last night. NUI Maynooth, which owned the camcorder that inadvertently recorded controversial comments by gardai, insisted it had abided by the law and prioritised the welfare of its students …” (more)
[Tom Brady and Edel O'Connell, Independent, 25 April]
“Jimmy Deenihan TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, and film director Neil Jordan, earlier today marked the success of the recent IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation Fund campaign with the launch of plans for a new IFI Irish Film Archive Preservation & Research Centre at NUI Maynooth …” (more)
[HT: Eoin O'Dell]
[Film Ireland, 4 April]
“Maynooth is the latest college to stand accused of presiding over a Raise and Give charity week that causes discomfort and harassment for nearby residents. The Leinster Leader revealed tonight how one landlord was told by Gardaí that it would be ‘too dangerous’ to attempt to make her way into a property which she was out-renting …” (more)
[StudentNews.ie, 23 March]
“Suggestions that seminarians were being asked to live a ‘cloistered life’ away from other students were rejected yesterday by Irish church leaders …” (more)
[Patsy McGarry, Irish Times, 21 March]
“While the future looks bright for Ireland’s IT sector, there are some clouds on the horizon for biotechnology. With a number of drug patents due to expire over the next few years, government and business leaders are bracing for what could translate into huge losses for Irish exports …” (more)
[John Farrell, Forbes, 17 March]
“NUI Maynooth-based Innovation Value Institute (IVI), creator of the IT-CMF framework for CIOs and IT managers, has expanded its operations to the US east coast with the establishment of a chapter in New Jersey …” (more)
[John Kennedy, Silicon Republic, 9 March]
“A university president has warned that any more delays in solving the funding crisis in higher education will damage thousands of students …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 17 February]
“‘Equivocation’ around funding for higher education ‘has done lasting damage’ to the institutions and to students, the president of NUI Maynooth has said. Prof Philip Nolan warned a failure to adequately fund higher education would result in ‘an inevitable mediocrity to the detriment of generations of students’ …” (more)
[Fiona Gartland, Irish Times, 17 February]
“Is new General Secretary ready for fire fighting? The appointment of Seán Ó Foghlú, pictured, as the new Secretary General in the Department of Education was not unexpected …” (more)
[Irish Times, 14 February]
“NUI Maynooth has been voted the friendliest place to go to college in Ireland in a poll of 10,000 third-level students …” (more)
[Irish Examiner, 17 January]
“NUI Maynooth has been voted the friendliest place to go to college in Ireland in a poll of 1,000 third-level students …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 17 January]
“Trainee priests at Ireland’s national seminary in Maynooth are to be separated from the rest of the student body …” (more)
[Clerical Whispers, 15 January]
