Educational Issues

Third-Level Institutes to Get 20 Women-Only Professorships

As part of the Senior Academic Leadership Initiative, 12 third-level institutes – including Trinity – will get funding to recruit women professors.
By Donal MacNamee

Institutes of Technology Gain New Award-Giving Powers in Win for Autonomy

The power of awarding degrees will no longer be delegated to Quality and Qualifications Ireland.
By Cormac Watson

Impeachments, Referendums and a Boardroom Scandal: 10 Years at The University Times

As the decade comes to an end, we look back at some of the biggest stories to rock Trinity – and higher education – in the last 10 years.
By Donal MacNamee and Cormac Watson
Editorial

TEP’s Benefits Won’t be Immediate. But Students Shouldn’t be its Guinea Pigs

Amid increased exam sittings, current students could be forgiven for wondering how the Trinity Education Project is benefiting them.
Editorial

When the Government Ignores the Arts, Trinity Must Fill in the Gap

This week’s investment in business and science subjects shows that the government has little interest in the arts.

USI Calls for National Framework on Students’ Union Autonomy

In a letter to Minister for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O'Connor, USI also called for better supports in higher education for asylum seekers.
By Donal MacNamee

Exam Sittings Rose by Nearly 10% in the Last Two Years, Figures Show

The figures are likely to raise questions about why the number has increased despite the implementation of the Trinity Education Project.
By Cormac Watson

For this Government, ‘Looking to Tomorrow’ Means Serving Today’s Corporations

On higher education, the government's priority is not building a better future – it's creating a workforce to cement the status quo, writes Cormac Watson.
By Cormac Watson

NUIG Charity Under Fire Over Spending on Luxury Hotels and Premium Flights

The country's charities watchdog has criticised the Galway University Foundation for its spending on hotels, flights and taxis.
By Orla Murnaghan
Editorial

Has College Learned Any Lessons From Last Year’s Exam Fiasco?

Hectic cloakrooms and exam paper mix-ups were another staple of this year’s exam period.