Daily Archives: 12 November, 2016

In defense of Ken Robinson – sort of

Amending competition and copyright law to enable open access to universities’ research

Losing it in class

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Philanthropist Chuck Feeney’s generosity had ‘a profound impact’ on Ireland, memorial hears "Irish American billionaire’s donations transformed higher-education system and moved peace process forward, Leo Varadkar tells memorial at Trinity College ..." (more) [Sorcha Pollak, Irish ...
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 ...
Plans to demolish former Cork city convent for hundreds of new student apartments "Plans have been submitted to demolish a former convent building in the city to make way for hundreds of new student apartments. The former St ...