Daily Archives: 05 August, 2010

Doom and gloom

Aim for happiness, not perfection

Industry/academic research links grew 25% in past year

Are private universities ‘a huge threat to academic standards’?

Does gender bias affect physics teaching?

Who Pays the Hidden Cost of University Research?

Universities and wisdom

USI urged to support govt jobs plan

Republican senators target ‘wasteful’ science spending in stimulus package

Mandatory academic writing classes: they’ll thank you for it later

Securing future of university and graduates is vital, says NUI Galway

Michael Bellesiles Takes Another Shot

Australian Education Minister Denies Overseas Market Collapse

Free Access to US Research Papers Could Yield $1 Billion in Benefits

Parents struggling as cost of education hits €70,000

Time to free research elite from the grant ‘treadmill’

Falling rents help reduce cost of going to college for second year

Too Hard Not to Cheat in the Internet Age?

Top posts – last 7 days

Six Years in Maynooth! "It is 1st December 2023, which means that it’s six years to the day since I started work at Maynooth University. (Obviously, I’m not there ...
Technological University Dublin beefs up security, increasing patrols and garda presence after campus ‘altercation’ "Gardaí will increase patrols of a university campus following the latest major public order incident in Dublin city centre ..." (more) [Fionnán Sheahan, Independent ...
Minister Harris announces multi-million euro funding approved to progress two key student learning projects for MTU "Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has today announced two projects in Munster Technological University (MTU) that will ...
The Irish Times view on higher education: students under strain "Like so much of the population affected by the pandemic, students attending higher education had their lives turned upside down. Many were undertaking courses, but ...
University of Limerick and Plassey Trust celebrate legal victory against Uisce Éireann (Irish Water) "The University of Limerick and Plassey Trust Company Limited, overseeing on-campus accommodation, are expressing satisfaction with the outcome of a judicial review opposing Uisce Éireann’s ...
STEM programme for disadvantaged communities expanded "An initiative to increase access to careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) for post-primary students in socially disadvantaged communities is to be expanded ...
UCC and UCD found to be among world’s most sustainable universities "A number of Irish universities have climbed the global ladder when it comes to sustainability, with University College Cork (UCC) and University College Dublin (UCD) ...
Trinity BDS end occupation of Regent House after overnight sit-in "Trinity Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (Trinity BDS) have ended their occupation of Regent House after 14 hours. In a statement to Trinity News, Trinity College ...
University Has Still Not Corrected Its Claim Regarding The Law And Pronouns "Last week, the South East Technological University (SETU) was presented with an award by the European University Association of Lifelong Learning (EUCEN) for its work ...
Student housing could be this government’s lifeline, but are they really taking it? "An investment in student accommodation across the State, worth €434 million, was announced last month by Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris and ...
Provost Linda Doyle Thanks ‘the Very Best of Trinity’ in Statement Following Riots "Provost Linda Doyle has released a statement addressing the violent riots that erupted in Dublin City Centre last night, condemning the 'horrific attacks' and 'unacceptable ...
Ulster University removes ‘top 2% of universities in the world’ poster after latest complaint "Ulster University has removed another advertisement after new complaints about misleading statements. In a sign spotted on its Coleraine campus this week, the university was ...