“The University of Limerick plans to install a camera system that can record licence plates to monitor all vehicles that enter the campus each day. A tender request for the special camera system was closed last month but has yet to be awarded …” (more)
[Jess Casey, Limerick Leader, 26 August]
“The Students Union at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) is concerned about night-time attacks on its members using a short-cut to get home to their accommodation …” (more)
[Dara Bradley, Galway City Tribune, 27 August]
“Sir, – It has been implied in media reportage of the public sector Croke Park II negotiations that all public sector workers are in pensionable, long-term and guaranteed jobs. This could not be further from the truth …” (more)
[Gerry Sutton, Irish Times, 1 March]
“Irish security research groups won more than €7m in funding for EU Seventh Framework security research programmes for 2011-2012 – putting the country in joint first place with Finland among EU-27 nations on a cash-per-capita basis …” (more)
[Gordon Smith, Silicon Republic, 16 August]
“Partnerships involving businesses and academic groups from the Republic and Northern Ireland featured in five of the 11 successful projects in the EU Seventh Framework security research programme for 2010-2011. According to figures from Enterprise Ireland, the indicative total European Community expenditure for security research in the period is €242,822,043 …” (more)
[Gordon Smith, Silicon Republic, 11 July]
“I want to take up an issue that goes to the heart of higher education, especially research universities, around the world. It is about global mobility, especially the mobility of human subjects. It also highlights the implications of changes in higher education for the larger world: that issue is the human security of international students, by which I mean people who cross national borders for the purposes of formal study …” (more)
[Simon Marginson, University World News, 17 January]
“There is growing concern among students about the strong arm tactics being used by security guards in University College Dublin. PULSE Security Management, the security firm ‘policing’ the UCD campus since September, is trained in security techniques by the International Bodyguard Association, an Irish Private Military Company that specialises in special forces type training …” (more)
[Indymedia Ireland, 13 December]
