Daily Archives: 29 May, 2013

Spending on Libraries by Irish Third Level Institutions

Dáil passes second stage of pay cuts legislation

29 May, 2013
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cuts, Fine Gael, Haddington Road Agreement, ICTU, Labour Party, pay, public sector
Legal issues

India’s ancient university returns to life

Higher Education Reform

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility – Capital Assets

Institutes of Technology Issues – Expenses

Student Grant Scheme Reform

Student Grant Scheme Administration

Incoming TCD student leader admits exam cheating

Methodology of QS rankings comes under scrutiny

Chairman of Tralee college to step down after controversy

Boost for Howlin as nurses’ union urges Yes to pay deal

NUIG is latest university to call in debt collectors over unpaid fees

29 May, 2013
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DCU, debt collection, DIT, fees, GMIT, IADT, LIT, student debt, TCD, UCD, UG, UL
Fees, access and admissions

College chief to retire early after no-confidence vote

29 May, 2013
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DES, Flan Garvey, HEA, IT Tralee, plagiarism, QQI, Ruairí Quinn, TUI
Governance and administration

Living by numbers

Technology students ‘lack workplace skills’

Top posts – last 7 days

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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
Are Students Customers? "When tuition fees were brought in to the UK higher education system many academics worried that the relationship between students and lecturers would be changed ...
Irish students superior to rest of EU at reading, but are getting worse at maths – OECD study "Irish students are the best performers in reading literacy in the European Union, according to a major international study - but there has been a ...
Where Did the Open Access Movement Go Wrong? "Richard Poynder has long been one of the most respected and insightful commentators on the scholarly communication ecosystem, and in particular on the development and ...
Universities plan easier access for NI students to colleges in South "Universities plan to make it easier for students in Northern Ireland to go to college in the South by ensuring A-levels results translate more fairly ...
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 ...
No, Appointing One Female University President Does Not Shatter the Glass Ceiling "Prof Kerstin Mey’s appointment as interim president of the University of Limerick (UL) earlier this week has – rightly – been lauded as historic. She ...
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 ...