Monthly Archives: October 2016

President Andrew Deeks ‘Favours’ Loan Scheme

Owner of Berkeley building can be sued over balcony collapse, court rules

Third Level Facilities – Mary Immaculate College

Higher Education Institutions Staff – Dublin City University

DCU incorporation reaches official completion

Failure to recruit more female engineers ‘harming economy’

Tánaiste says Govt cannot abandon Lansdowne Road Agreement for Garda pay deal

Undervalued, Overworked, Taken for Granted: PhD Students Issue Damning Report on ‘Exploitative’ Working Conditions at Queen’s

Former Irish Daily Star editor appointed Adjunct Professor of Journalism at UL

Queen’s University: Some PhD students ‘earn less than minimum wage’

Peace process archives digitised at NUI Galway

Tips for Managing Curmudgeons

Reverse-Culture Shock

UCD refused extra €2.5m for Confucius Centre

Thumbs down for educational technology?

Developer O’Flynn buys Point Campus for over €20m

Edinburgh University principal in ‘catastrophic’ Brexit warning

Third level in distress: how colleges are coping with mental health

No asylum in Ireland’s education system

Is it possible to balance college and parenthood?

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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 ...
Why are college dropout rates on the up in Ireland? "News that student dropout rates have been climbing across universities comes as no surprise to Treasa Fox. As head of student counselling at Technological University ...