Higher Education
From Funding to Policy Failings to the Casualisation of Staff, the Very Fabric of Third-Level is Threatened
Mike Jennings, General Secretary of the Irish Federation of University Teachers, on some of the biggest issues facing the sector, both students and staff.
Social Democrats Recommit to 10 per cent Increase in Higher Education Investment
In their alternative budget, the party states it would reduce the student contribution by €300 for the 2017/18 year, with a view of reducing it by €1,000 over time.
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Diary of an Academic: What Your Lecturers Actually do All Year
Prof Patrick Geoghegan breaks down how an academic spends their year, from the summer months to preparing for term to that elusive free time.
Despite Fianna Fáil “Wariness”, Ógra Call for Introduction of Loan Scheme
This follows their call last year, ahead of publication of the Cassells report, for the introduction of a loan scheme system.
Student Groups Move Towards Lobbying in an Attempt to Effect Greater Change
Simon Foy examines the shift away from protesting and towards lobbying that has taken place across the student movement in recent years.
Trinity’s Attractiveness to Some Foreign Students is Largely Dependent on Forces Beyond Its Control
Loic Delorme discusses the benefits and pitfalls of the CAO application system and how it could be improved to attract foreign students to Ireland.
Author of Australian Loan System to Speak in Trinity, as Part of All-Day Seminar on Funding
Trinity College Dublin Students' Union (TCDSU) President, Kieran McNulty, and University of Dublin Senator Ivana Bacik, will also speak at the seminar.
Reimagining the Education we get in Trinity: A Vice-Provost’s Journal
Vice-Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Chris Morash, discusses the new Trinity Education Project and outlines the effect it will have on Trinity’s approach to education in the first of a series of columns
Leathnaíonn Comhphobal Choláiste na Tríonóide Thar Íomhá Thraidisiúnta de Phríbhléid agus Scothroghnachas
Nochtann Inside Trinity, sracfhéachaint ar shaol na hollscoile a rinne RTÉ, comhphobal beoga, ag léiriú foinn Choláiste na Tríonóide níos mó inrochtaineachta do ghrúpaí fo-ionadaithe.
Apparently We’re Just Not Wealthy Enough to Demand Free Education
Kevin Donoghue explores how Irish governments would rather keep companies like Apple happy than invest in third-level education.