Daily Archives: 25 September, 2012

TCD-UCD merger

UCD And Trinity Merger Recommended By Changes To Higher Education System Report

New College of the Humanities needs content as well as celebrity thinkers

Altmetrics: what’s the point?

Amy Bishop Is Sentenced to Life in Prison, Bringing Legal Case to an End

It’s educational chestnut time again …

Merger of Trinity and UCD urged in top-level report

25 Sep, 2012
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DCU, Frans Van Vught, HEA, Hunt Report, mergers, MU, TCD, Tom Boland, UCD
Governance and administration

Quinn refusing to back down in student means test row

€1m provided to students for cancer research

Teacher’s Pet

Chatterbox

Education should listen to business

The key problem at the heart of every university

Who earns what in teaching?

Professor gets life for uni rampage

Science professors biased against females — study

AC Grayling’s college: Cult of personality or value for money?

Top posts – last 7 days

The Meaningless University Rankings "I see that the Times Higher has now released this year’s outcomes of its annual exercise in numerology called the World University Rankings. The announcement ...
Public sector pay talks expected to begin in coming weeks "Unions have agreed a core set of priorities ahead of public sector pay talks which are due to begin in the coming weeks. The current ...
Trinity moves up 30 places amid mixed results for Irish universities in world rankings "Ireland’s top-ranked university has climbed almost 30 places in the latest set of global rankings which overall show mixed results for Irish universities ..." (
Third-level colleges to agree standard approach to student cheating in exams "Third-level colleges are agreeing a common approach to student cheating in a move to achieve consistency across the system. A new framework sets out guidelines ...
Fears that €307m higher ed funding gap will not be addressed as Budget 2024 looms "Provost Linda Doyle has called on the college community to 'raise our voices' amid fears that the higher-education sector will not get additional €307 million ...
The Strain on Scientific Publishing "It’s the end of my first week away but before I go home for a swim in the pool on my roof terrace I thought ...
Colleges’ capacity to deliver skilled graduates is ‘stretched to the limit’, warn university presidents "University presidents have warned the Government that their capacity to deliver high-quality education has been 'stretched to the limit' due to rising student-staff ratios and ...
Education Technological universities are not a ‘mistake’, they’re a milestone in 21st-century higher education "Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit’s argument in this newspaper on September 3rd, In creating new technological universities, did we make a mistake?, for a ...
‘Huge variance’ in dropout rates across college courses a concern, Simon Harris says "The 'huge variance' in student dropout rates across colleges and courses is a matter of concern and needs to investigated, Minister for Higher Education Simon ...
MTU student describes capacity issues on North Kerry bus route as barbaric "An MTU student has described capacity issues on a daily bus route as barbaric. It follows problems on the North Kerry route in recent weeks ...
Students to march to Dáil on October 4 to demand Government uses Budget 2024 surplus to address accommodation crisis "Students from across Ireland are set to take to the streets of Dublin next week to demand Government use its €65 billion ‘rainy day’ fund ...
International student numbers in higher education climb to new high "The number of international students attending Irish universities climbed to a record high of more than 35,000 in the last academic year, or almost one ...