Daily Archives: 23 March, 2015

Staff at Sligo college to stage second strike over NUIG merger

23 Mar, 2015
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Jan O'Sullivan, LRC, mergers, St Angela's College, strike, TUI, UG
Governance and administration

Activist pulled out of event because of miscommunication – SOFIA

Europe’s research commissioner lays out his ambitions

RCPI first in Ireland to partner with Tata on MOOCs project

Activist pulls out of Trinity College talk due to ‘restrictions’ aimed at not ‘antagonising’ Muslims

Boozing student hordes need to learn lessons in decent behaviour

23 Mar, 2015
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anti-social behaviour, drinking, QUB, student discipline, UU
Legal issues, Life

Oxbridge Application Process Branded ‘Institutionally Racist’ by Cambridge Professor Diane Reay

LSE Occupy Interviews Owen Jones

Bruton: Public sector ‘pay recovery’ depends on spending constraints

Education policy seeks to diminish status and morale of researchers

23 Mar, 2015
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contract researchers, employment rights, ERA, EU, fixed-term staff, IFUT, Mike Jennings, MU, researchers, Tyndall Institute, UCC, UCD, UG
Legal issues, Research

The scientists are mad as hell, so show them the money

Unthinkable: Why should the State fund universities?

Medical graduates

My Education Week: ‘I try and approach any subject objectively’

Activist claims Trinity speech on apostasy and Islam cancelled

Scottish universities under fire over zero hours contracts

Basic Research and ‘That’ Letter

Higher Education and the 2015 UK General Election

Home of maths genius George Boole set for grand design

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