News

blank

NUIG Postgraduates Set Up PhD, Postdoctoral Workers Rights Group

The group says it's ‘concerned with making sure we are treated fairly as researchers and are recognised as workers’.
By Alex Connolly
blank

Trinity Sets Up Emergency Group to Manage Financial Risks of Coronavirus

College has already implemented a freeze on staff recruitment as a result of the ‘significant financial consequences’ of the coronavirus.
By Donal MacNamee
blank

Halls Residents Face Move Into Single Block, Despite Coronavirus Case

Students staying past May 17th will have to move into one block so College can close other apartment blocks to ‘conserve energy and costs’.
By Cormac Watson
blank

No Decision Yet on When, How College Will Re-Open Accommodation Next Year

Trinity said plans to re-open its accommodation remain ‘under consideration in light of the ongoing challenges related to Covid-19’.
By Orla Murnaghan
blank

Fianna Fáil Will Seek State Funding for Extra College Places if in Government

Fianna Fáil will seek to secure funding for extra college places amid fears that calculated grades could cost students from disadvantaged areas.
By Donal MacNamee
blank

Online Teaching to Continue Into Next Year, Provost Confirms

In a video from the Provost's Garden, Prendergast said large lectures will move online, while seminars and tutorials will return to campus.
By Cormac Watson
blank

Students Can Avail of €3k Fees Even If They Restart College After Appeal

Students who start college but get an improved course offer after appealing their calculated grade can defer college and still get ‘free fees’.
By Sárán Fogarty
blank

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.
By Orla Murnaghan
blank

‘Too Early to Say’ When Freshers Will Start College, Says Trinity

The government's website has identified late September or early October as a date for when college courses will start.
By Cormac Watson
blank

Calculated Grades Confirmed for Leaving Cert Students, Exams Postponed

Students will be given the option of sitting the leaving certificate at an unspecified later date, or get calculated grades.
By Ella Connolly and Donal MacNamee