“The University of Ulster has unveiled its plans for its Belfast campus. Images of the new £250m development, built around the existing campus in York Street, were released for the first time on Thursday …” (more)
[BBC News, 1 March]
“NI universities and teacher-training colleges could be controlled by two separate departments if the ministry they currently fall under is dissolved, a Stormont committee has heard. The first and deputy first ministers have proposed that the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) should be closed …” (more)
[BBC News, 29 February]
“A row has erupted between Northern Ireland’s two main universities over how to stop student riots engulfing the Holylands area of Belfast on St Patrick’s Day. The University of Ulster has accused Queen’s University of encouraging a ‘four-day party’ by giving its students two extra days off to mark March 17 this year …” (more)
[Lesley-Ann McKeown, Belfast Telegraph, 29 February]
“A new academic institute in Northern Ireland will foster deeper relations with the region and China, a government minister from Beijing has said. Chinese vice minister of education Hao Ping expressed hope that the Confucius Institute would help promote a greater understanding between the two cultures …” (more)
[Independent, 26 February]
“The University of Ulster has bought up a large swathe of land in Belfast’s north inner city to house its new £250m campus. Detailed plans which include a glass 10-storey building in York Street, will be revealed next week …” (more, video)
[BBC News, 24 February]
“University of Ulster academic and chairman of the Royal Society of Chemistry Northern Ireland section (RSCNI), Dr Tony Byrne, has said the establishment of the All Party Group on Science and Technology at Stormont will help promote STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths) subjects …” (more)
[University of Ulster, 24 February]
“The University of Ulster has bought up a large swathe of land in Belfast’s north inner city to house its new £250m campus. Detailed plans are to be revealed next week, including a 10-storey building in York Street …” (more)
[Kevin Magee, BBC News, 24 February]
“The University of Ulster has warned students who get involved in trouble on St Patrick’s Day they will be expelled. The university has recorded a video message which will be sent to all students ahead of St Patrick’s Day …” (more)
[BBC News, 23 February]
“The University of Ulster has revealed that house prices in Northern Ireland have almost halved from peak levels. The report did not take rental properties into account. Two huge listed but derelict buildings near QUB were sold last week for less than a quarter of their original £1m asking price in 2007 …” (more)
[Belfast Studenty.me, 9 February]
“A new £6m research centre that aims to become a global leader in developing materials technology was officially opened by the UK business secretary, Vince Cable, during his first visit to the North yesterday …” (more)
[Francess McDonnell, Irish Times, 1 February]
“The body of a man has been recovered from a river at the University of Ulster (UU) in Coleraine. He was taken from the water near Cromore Road, behind a building on the campus …” (more)
[Independent, 31 January]
“Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that have resulted from the 2009 North West Gateway Strategic Alliance, NWGSA, scoping study prepared for Letterkenny Institute of Technology and the University of Ulster by a company (details supplied) in association with London Economics …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann, 11 January]
[The 2009 study is here]
“Colleges and universities should return to the control of the Department of Education, according to unions. They are currently run by the Department for Employment and Learning which is due to be scrapped …” (more)
[BBC News, 12 January]
“A Derry academic has been appointed as a member of the Irish President’s Council of State. Professor Deirdre Heenan, who is Provost and Dean of Academic Development at Magee, is one of seven personal nominees of Michael D Higgins …” (more)
[BBC News, 9 January]
“The University of Ulster is to team up with a Chinese counterpart to promote the teaching of Mandarin in Northern Ireland schools. The initiative was one of three agreements the university has signed with academics in eastern China …” (more)
[Independent, 27 December]
“The University of Ulster has put a deposit down on the 30-acre Foyle College school site in Londonderry to progress its expansion plans in the city …” (more)
[Brendan McDaid, Belfast Telegraph, 8 December]
“A campaign has been set up to stop history courses being transferred from Magee Campus out of Londonderry. The University of Ulster is being urged to rethink …” (more)
[Brendan McDaid, Belfast Telegraph, 2 December]
“Northern Ireland’s two main third-level colleges, Queen’s University, Belfast and the University of Ulster, are in uncharted waters waiting to see how the radical changes to the British fees structures will affect the intake of students …” (more)
[Gerry Moriarty, Irish Times, 29 November]
“Trinity College has teamed up with six of Ireland’s largest third level institutions in a cross-border initiative to establish a new Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) structured PhD programme …” (more)
[Fionn O’Dea, University Times, 22 November]
“Students in Britain will pay tuition fees of £6,000 a year to attend the University of Ulster. The flat fee will come into effect in September for students from England, Scotland and Wales …” (more)
[Belfast Telegraph, 16 November]
