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Final-Year Medicine Students to Face Oral Exam If Suspected of Cheating

Final-year medicine students sat their exams on Zoom this week, with invigilators able to ask them to show their screen at any time.
By Sárán Fogarty
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Student Hardship Fund Raises €200k in A Week, After Graduate Appeal

Provost Patrick Prendergast told staff and students that the response from graduates to the appeal has been ‘extraordinary’.
By Sárán Fogarty
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College to Spend €200k Recruiting Chinese Students

The move will see Trinity employing two full-time staff in China.
By Emer Moreau
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IFUT Blasts Government Over ‘Slight’ on Academics in Exam Preparation

The union says Higher Education Minister Mary Mitchell O'Connor has overlooked the contribution of academic staff in summer assessments.
By Molly Furey
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Students to Get Exam Results Three Weeks Later than Normal, in New Timeline

Students' results will start coming out on Monday, June 15th, according to a confidential document approved by University Council yesterday.
By Aoife Kearins
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Lauren Boland Elected Next Trinity News Editor

Boland, the paper's current deputy editor, will take over from Aisling Grace in May.
By Ella Connolly
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Likelihood Grows of Delay to Leaving Certificate Exams

The government believes it's unlikely that social distancing measures will be lifted by the time the exams are due to start in June.
By Molly Furey
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Trinity to Set Up Coronavirus Research Centre, With €2.4m AIB Backing

The centre, which will be located in the TBSI, will focus on designing drugs and a potential vaccine to fight the pandemic.
By Cormac Watson
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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
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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