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- Appointment of new CEO by the Higher Education Authority (20 August) - "The Board of the Higher Education Authority (HEA) met yesterday and approved the appointment of Dr Alan Wall as CEO of the HEA following an open...
- Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database (19 August) - "Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters - but researchers warn against policing self-citation. The world’s most-cited...
- Minister urges scientists to pressure politicians to 'invest in innovation' (20 August) - "Minister John Halligan has urged scientists to use the next general election to put pressure on politicians to commit to investing in research ahead...
- 67% of DEIS students want to go to college but lack confidence in ability to do so (19 August) - "Two-thirds of children from DEIS schools want to go to college, but many lack confidence in their ability do so, according to new research. A study...
- Protest in the Quad in support of a UCC colleague (22 August) - "We're standing here in the main quad in UCC in solidarity with our colleague and friend Aman De Sondy. Aman has received a horrible, racist...
- Library services (19 August) - "Sir, – Your guide to college life in Ireland (August 13th) details the realities of student life and includes 'what’s hot' and 'what’s not' for...
- Board issues opinion on plan for major student accommodation complex in Terryland (20 August) - "An Bord Pleanala has issued its opinion that an application for a major new student accommodation complex in Terryland can be formally submitted. The...
- When ‘girl students’ joined the priests-to-be in Maynooth (21 August) - "Ireland, May 1969, and St Patrick’s College in Maynooth, Co Kildare, was causing a stir. An Irish Times journalist paid a visit to the seminary,...
- More than half of students skip class to work so they can pay for rising rents (19 August) - "More than 50% of students reported skipping lectures to work, as they struggle to pay soaring rents. Some 15% of students said they would cut down on...
- On Higher Education, a Government Under Scrutiny - And Still Without Ideas (19 August) - "This week, Ireland’s education ministers found their way into the glare of the national headlines with an intensity not often seen in recent years....
- CAO 2019: Seven take-aways from this year’s college offers (16 August) - "About 50,000 applicants received an offer of a college place from the Central Applications Office (CAO) on Thursday afternoon. Here are some of the...
- Third level institutions hike up student accommodation rents as Minister buries his head in the sand – Chambers (17 August) - "Fianna Fáil TD for Mayo, Lisa Chambers, has hit out at Minister for Housing, Eoghan Murphy, for failing to cap spiralling student accommodation...
- Time for Dublin’s universities to amalgamate (15 April) - "A chara, – People have welcomed the prospect of Dublin’s Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) gaining official university status (News,...
- Student Grant Scheme Administration - Revocation of Grants (26 March) - "Deputy Paul J Connaughton: ... I will give details of three cases in which people were awarded grants and then had them taken back in different...
- Has semesterisation been a good thing? (1 April) - "The Trinity Education Project (semesterisation and modularisation in effect) is provoking a lot of debate at the moment. All of the other...
- USI wants the barriers to education broken (20 August) - "The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) have called on the government to break the barriers to third level education. In a statement, the USI...
- Justice Minister and UCC President back Muslim lecturer at centre of sinister 'execution' call (22 August) - "The respected Muslim lecturer who received a sinister voicemail calling for his execution says he takes huge encouragement from all the messages of...
- 'I hope you are executed' - Muslim university lecturer wants action taken after receiving chilling voice message (22 August) - "Officials at an Irish university have expressed disgust at a sinister telephone message left for a respected Muslim lecturer. University College Cork...
- The great British university con (22 August) - "The UK’s reputedly world-class higher education sector has long been a source of pride and consolation for a diminished power. At first glance,...
- Ministers under fire over cost of living comments (18 August) - "Two Government ministers are under fire for 'alarming' comments on the cost of living for students. Craig McHugh, Union of Students in Ireland vice...
- The new frontier for Irish higher education: Africa (17 August) - "For the past decade or so, Irish universities with an eye on expansion have been looking towards Asia or the Middle East. Most major colleges now...
- 'Irish SOPA' To Receive First Test in Pirate Bay Blocking Case (4 June) - "One of the ISPs targeted by the major recording labels in the latest Pirate Bay blocking case says it will not voluntarily censor the website. Irish...
- UL’s Kemmy Business School awarded prestigious international accreditation (21 August) - "University of Limerick’s Kemmy Business School has been awarded a prestigious global accreditation, joining the top 5% of international business...
- Higher education and options (21 August) - "Sir, – Laura Harmon (Letters, August 17th) clearly makes the point that university education should be universally available as a matter of...
- Editorial: 'If all they seek is wealth, we're failing our students' (16 August) - "How often we have heard in recent years how we must aspire to be a society and not just an economy. The CAO points released yesterday for almost...
- Student accommodation planned for former Rialto Cinema site (9 August) - "A developer plans on turning the former Rialto Cinema into purpose-built student accommodation. Molaga Capital Limited has applied to An Bord...
- ‘Revolutionary Struggle’ and the 1981 Trinity shooting (17 September) - "Revolutionary Struggle (RS) were a small militant Marxist group active from c.1975 to c.1984. They were mainly Dublin-based, particularly Trinity...
- Graduates overlooking Irish companies in favour of multinationals, survey finds (22 August) - "Irish companies need to do more to attract top home-grown talent, a new survey has found. According to research carried out by Universum on behalf of...
- UCC stands against 'ignorant shameful hate' says president as lecturer receives threatening voicemail (22 August) - "The President of University College Cork (UCC) says the university stands against 'ignorant shameful hate' after a respected Muslim lecturer received...
- Black Cat Appreciation Day (17 August) - "Apparently today, August 17th, is Black Cat Appreciation Day, so I couldn’t resist acknowledging the contributions of Maynooth University Library...
- Professors Have Taken Over the MOOCs (26 September) - "We need to revise our thinking about MOOCs. The old story was that MOOCs are just another overhyped educational technology, one more example of...
- Munster technological university bid fails to get green light (24 July) - "Government plans to award university status to institutes of technology may prove 'problematic' due to a lack of clarity over what constitutes...
- More girls studying Stem is the only way things will change in the 'bro culture' of tech (8 August) - "In June, we were the first company to put an unmanned self-driving truck on a public highway. We test-drove a commercial truck for nine miles along...
- Minister would 'report college drug dealers to gardaí' (19 August) - "Higher Education Minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor has said she would report those dealing drugs in colleges to gardaí. She told the Sunday...
- Backlash about 'female-only' posts is rubbish - we need to right the balance (27 June) - "Summer solstice 2019: the day higher education in Ireland changed forever. I officially opened the call to higher education institutions to apply for...
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