Daily Archives: 20 June, 2013

31% of students would change courses

Ireland a ‘rising star’ for scientific research

What are universities (not) doing about ‘social exclusion’? Some myths …

SIPTU votes to back Haddington Road Agreement

Science Gallery announces over €2m in new funding as it celebrates fifth birthday

Universities in Consortium Talk of Taking Back Control of Online Offerings

Clusters and Groups

Drive to attract students undermines academic education, says professor

The end of (compulsory) history

Universities named in list of top 100 ‘newcomers’

Watchdog clears gardai of assault at student march

Science and languages vital education tools, says HP boss

Pandas, Professors, And Promises, Or, The MOOC Will Not Set Us Free

Internet giants seek stay on order removing defamatory video

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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...