Daily Archives: 26 June, 2013

Irish Presidency achieves agreement on €16 billion new support programme for education, training, youth and sport

Horizon 2020 deal reached in Brussels

Student Grant Scheme Design – Farming Families

Third Level Fees

Section Committee comments on the ‘Haddington Road’ result

Concerns growing over ‘gaming’ in university rankings

Fire at UL

Survey Finds Only Limited Public Awareness of MOOCs

Measuring Collegiality

Proportion of public expenditure on education fell from 13.7% to 9.7% between 2000 and 2010

New Mayo art degree part-funded by Shell causes controversy

Emigrating for a cheaper education

Sinn Fein and University of Ulster clash over who’s to blame for stunting Magee’s growth

Irish graduates more likely to be jobless than those in other countries

University honours golf supremo

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...