Daily Archives: 06 June, 2012

10 (or so) of the worst passwords exposed by the LinkedIn hack

Open-access petitioners trigger White House response

IFUT says Higher Education Authority partly responsible for overpayments

Quinn reiterates commitment to €3k cap on student registration fees

Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General

06 Jun, 2012
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campus companies, DCU, MU, overpayments, TCD, UCC, UCD, UG, UL
Legal issues

Universities to be penalised for €8m staff salary top-ups

06 Jun, 2012
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DCU, HEA, MU, overpayments, TCD, UCC, UCD, UG, UL
Legal issues

Banks pay colleges €9.9m for branches on campus

Some awkward exam questions

Medicine entry test fails to level the playing field

What Effect Is the Economic Crisis Really Having on Higher Education?

WIT’s controversial spending raised in audit

€2k bursaries for university students who lost grant

Universities overpaid staff by €8.1m since 2005, report finds

Murdered Nicola Furlong’s boyfriend tells of heartache

High impact: how the story of research can be told better

Students Given Option to Pay Contribution Charge in Instalments

Students’ pushy parents must cut the umbilical cord, say Oxford dons, as demands for exam remarks soar

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Study finds majority of Supreme Court judges went to UCD and a private school "A new study on the membership of the Supreme Court since its establishment almost 100 years ago found it is disproportionately composed of judges from ...
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