College

Trinity Will Use Turnitin to Combat Cheating in Real-Time Exams

College will only run real-time online exams when they're ‘academically indispensable’, students were told today.
By Donal MacNamee and Sárán Fogarty

Findings by Trinity Ageing Researchers to Help National Coronavirus Response

TILDA researchers have published a slew of new data that will help formulate policy on limiting the spread of the virus among older people.
By Emma Donohoe

In 1904, the ‘Steamboat Ladies’ Kicked Off a Trinity Equality Battle. It’s Still Going

From 1904 to 1907, 700 women came to Trinity from the UK to collect their degrees. Experts say they started a conversation that continues today.
By Molly Furey

Student Asks on No Detriment ‘Not Fulfilled’ by Exam Proposals, Says TCDSU

Niamh McCay wrote to members of Council yesterday before it discussed a document that said a no-detriment policy is 'unworkable' in Trinity.
By Aoife Kearins

Biochemistry School ‘Strongly Against’ No-Detriment Policy

Final-year biochemistry students were told that the school was opposing the policy ‘in order to protect the reputation of your degree programme’.
By Cormac Watson

Trinity Students Receive Degrees In Zoom Commencement Ceremony

Chancellor Mary McAleese conferred 532 degrees in the traditional Latin in an unprecedented online ceremony.
By Emer Moreau

NUIG Medicine Students Graduate Early to Join Healthcare Frontline

Some 190 medicine students attended a fast-tracked graduation ceremony – held on a Facebook live stream – before they start work.
By Emer Moreau

UCD to Take Student Exam Concerns ‘Into Account’, But Skirts No Detriment

An email to UCD students promised the college would take circumstances ‘into account’, but did not reference a no-detriment policy.
By Sárán Fogarty

For Director Portia A Buckley, Creativity Comes From Community

The writer–director – with two generations of grandmothers who went to Trinity – talks breaking taboos and being drawn to a sense of place.
By Holly Moore

Eoin Ó Broin Blasts Government As Students Fight for Housing Refunds

Ó Broin said the response from Minister for Higher Eduction Mary Mitchell O'Connor 'will do little to allay' the fears of students chasing refunds.
By Danielle Varley