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After Backlash, UCD Abandons Plans to Weaken Policy on Academic Freedom
The draft plan to change the policy said UCD must consider ‘the risk of tension’ between academic freedom and its international links.
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.
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’.
College to Spend €200k Recruiting Chinese Students
The move will see Trinity employing two full-time staff in China.
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.
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.
Lauren Boland Elected Next Trinity News Editor
Boland, the paper's current deputy editor, will take over from Aisling Grace in May.
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.
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.
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.