These Irish blogs are all devoted to higher education, or some aspect of it:
creative Head space
Education Ireland
Ernie Ball’s Blog
Facilitate
Foreseeing Academicals
Hidden History of UCD
IFUT
In a Strange Land
IReL News
Lifelong Learning Blog
Read Around Research
Summa cum laude
Tales from Academia
Tertiary21
The Large and Small Indignities of Precarity
Third Level Workplace Watch
University Blog on Academic Tenure in Ireland
University Bureaucracy Watch
University of the South East Campaign
USI Equality Blog
9th Level Ireland (this blog)
These Irish blogs have a wider remit, but frequently include discussion of (or relevant to) higher education:
Aidan Kane
Antimatter
ASTI
A President’s Blog by PJ Rudden
A President’s Notebook
A Trinity Tale
Bart Busschots
Belfield
Brian M Lucey
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Cearta
Chrisjhorn’s Blog
Colum McCaffery’s Weblog
Cork Economics
DarkRepository
Economic Incentives
Finfacts Ireland
FMRSI
Frank Gannon’s Blog
Hugh Sullivan’s Blog
In the Dark
Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM
Inside View from Ireland
Irish Debate
Irish Business Blog
Irish Law Forum
Is this going to be on the exam?
Jono Clifford’s Blog
Kevin Denny: Economics more-or-less
Learning Technologies
levdavidovic
Liam Delaney
Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog
Paddy Healy’s Blog
Pam O’Brien’s blog
Pennybridged’s Weblog …
Prof Jimmy Hill, National College of Ireland
Pue’s Occurrences
Rebecca Murphy’s Blog
Science, society, stuff …
Science Calling!
Science Spinning
Shane O’Mara’s blog
simondobson.org
Stephen Kinsella
Tales of Mystery and Pagination
Techno-culture
The Irish Economy
The Norman Wyse Commentary
The provisional university
The World According to Gar
University Blog
Irish student newspapers:
An Focal
SIN
The College View
The Gown
The University Observer
The University Times
Trinity News
Some student university discussion boards are on open access:
DCU (boards.ie)
NUI Galway (boards .ie)
NUI Maynooth (boards.ie)
Trinity (boards.ie)
UCC (boards.ie)
UCC (forum.ucc.ie)
UCD (boards.ie)
UL (boards.ie)
Here are some international blogs with an interest in higher education:
21st Century Scholar
4Humanities
A Crumbling Ivory Tower?
A don’s life
A Lecturers Life
Beerkens’ Blog
Ben Goldacre
BishopBlog
BlogHighEd
Bullying of Academics in Higher Education
Burnt-out Adjunct
Campaign for the Public University
Changing Higher Education
Council for the Defence of British Universities
Critical Mass
Curious Librarian
Curt Rice
David Petrie: Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy
Donald Clark Plan B
DrBadgr
Effervescent Librarian’s Blog
e-LiME
Female Science Professor
Gavia Libraria
GlobalHigherEd
hEaD space
Higher Education Management Group
How the University Works
Improvisation Blog
Intersecting sets
Ivory Tower Blues
Living in interesting times
Parar Bolonha
Pardon My Ignorance
Registrarism
Research Blogs
Retraction Watch
Scholarship 2.0
Talking Teaching
The History Woman’s Blog
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
The storm breaking upon the university
The Traveling Scholar
UCU
University Politics
University Ranking Watch