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Universities Confirm They’ll Use Calculated Grades for Admissions
Students who opt to sit postponed leaving certificate exams will not be able to do so in time to start college in 2020/21.
Trinity Researchers Launch Online Learning Centre for Primary Students
The programme, featuring science videos and experiments, hopes to help students learning from home due to the pandemic.
Trinity to Push Ahead With TTEC Plans, With State Investment ‘Critical’
Trinity's chief innovation and enterprise officer said plans for the campus are ‘robust’, and built to withstand economic turbulence.
Leaving Cert Set to Be Replaced by Predicted Grades, Say Reports
If new plans for the leaving certificate are approved by cabinet, students will receive grades based on their coursework.
College Could Lose €40m Commercial Revenue by September 2020
Trinity’s Summer Series looks unlikely to proceed, and College says ‘a significant portion’ of its losses will lie in revenue lost over the summer.
Uncertainty Over Fate of Freshers’ Fair, With Social Distancing Likely
TCDSU president Laura Beston said that ‘any event on campus must comply with all regulations including social distancing’.
Trinity Lecturer Gets €500k Research Grant for Work in West Bank
Dr Brendan Browne will examine the conditions for Palestinian Bedouin people living in the West Bank, including the risk of forcible transfer.
GSU Elections to Take Place Online, With Voting at End of May
The GSU has hired an external elections company, Mi-Voice, in order to ‘ensure that the election is completely secure and fair’.
USI: Student Nurses, Midwives on Placement Need ‘Urgent Clarity’
In Trinity, first and third-year students have been pulled from unpaid placements, but final-year interns are still required to attend work.
€1.5m Revamp of Áras an Phiarsaigh on Hold Due to College Closure
The refurbishment, which is 60 per cent complete, was undertaken to house staff hired for Trinity's E3 Institute.