Daily Archives: 05 September, 2021

‘Inevitable’ that points for most courses will increase due to record-breaking Leaving Cert results

Messers, Dreamers and Misfits

Book Review: Dark Academia: How Universities Die by Peter Fleming

Top posts – last 7 days

University of Galway lecturer challenges suspension following ‘false accusation’ of sexual activity with student "A lecturer at the University of Galway has launched High Court proceedings over what he claims is his wrongful suspension following a 'false accusation' that ...
UCC finance chief says sector needs new funding model "The Chief Financial Officer at University College Cork has warned that the funding model for third-level education 'threatens the sector’s ability to deliver such services ...
Work to develop new €24m university campus in Limerick to begin in coming weeks "A new €24 million campus for the Technological University of the Shannon in Limerick will be completed by the end of 2023. An update on ...
ChatGPT is the push higher education needs to rethink assessment "The COVID-19 pandemic was a shock to higher education systems everywhere. But while some changes, like moving lectures online, were relatively easy to make, assessment ...
New crackdown on rogue landlords after UCC area problems "The Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) says a 'revised compliance and enforcement policy' is on the cards this year as part of a crackdown on rogue ...
Long-awaited UL Student Centre to be completed by 2024 costing €34 million "After three years of delays due to Covid-19 and ‘hyperinflation,’ the project to construct a multi-million euro Student Centre at UL is back up and ...
Essays and (Computational) Physics "There have been more news stories about ChatGPT and assessment in universities going around. There’s one here from The Journal and another here from The ...
Maynooth University Library Cat Update "I’m afraid that there has been an incident on Maynooth University Campus, as I discovered on Twitter ..." (more) [In the Dark, 12 March]
Submit your ideas on the Statement of Strategy of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science – Ministers Harris and Collins "The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has today launched a consultation on the development of the department’s second Statement of ...
Postgraduate Workers’ Organisation to march to Dáil "The Postgraduate Workers’ Organisation (PWO) is to march from Front Square to the Dáil next Thursday, March 23 to demand better conditions for postgraduate researchers ...
New Belfast city centre student blocks ‘causing concern’ after Sandy Row accommodation proposal "A Belfast councillor has criticised the 'clustering' of new student blocks around the Sandy Row and Belfast city centre areas, claiming it will leave less ...
Queen’s University braced for further two days of strike action "Strike action from workers at Queen’s University is set to continue this week as union members begin another two days of action in an ongoing ...

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Daily Archives: 05 September, 2021