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Dublin-based Nualang in partnership to transform digital language learning experience

Nualang, which is supported by Enterprise Ireland, has struck a deal with US-based Wayside Publishing

Study to identify hurdles to rollout of after-school services

The Department of Education may provide grants to schools to encourage them to open such services, which are much needed by working parents

Inside the music and acting colleges training the stars of tomorrow

The BIMM institute and the Lir Academy were set up just 12 years ago and are now playing a huge part in Ireland’s cultural output, with Oscar-nominated actor Paul Mescal and chart-topping bands such as Fontaines DC and the Murder Capital taking the world by storm

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Trinity provost warns board members that leaks about finances risk damaging university’s reputation

Provost of Trinity College Dublin warned that leaking documents related to the university’s financial performance risked reputational damage

James McDermott: In the era of ChatGPT, pen and paper exams may be the only way to prevent cheating

The escalating arms race between sophisticated cheating services on the one hand, and enhanced detection services on the other, could mean going back basics

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Maynooth University spent €1.6m on student centre before scrapping it due to spiralling costs

University is considering legal action to recover money spent on the now-scrapped project but says it won’t need any exchequer funding

Young Scientist Exhibition: genomes, edible insects and a smart washing line

The BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, at the RDS in Dublin, showcased imaginative solutions, created by students and young people, to many of life’s problems big and small

Harris aims to halve third-level education fees

Minister says he wants to increase income thresholds so more students can benefit from the proposed cuts and increase grants

Hundreds of students have personal emails exposed in data breach at University of Limerick

UL has notified the Data Protection Commission about the issue and apologised to impacted students

UL says former official may seek injunction if it releases report on €8m site purchase

The University of Limerick has refused for months to release the contents of the KPMG report into its acquisition of the former Dunnes site in the city centre in 2019

Aidan Regan: Irish politics has realigned along new class lines

With the rise of the knowledge economy, a new working class has emerged of highly educated, low-income voters. It is these who are likely to carry Sinn Féin into government at the next general election

Out of the good books: from the Berkeley Library to the ‘X library’

Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union is demanding the college rename the Berkeley Library after it became known that the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley was a slave owner. Is the timing right

Language learning start-up broadens its horizons with Barcelona move

Dublin-founded Weeve is seeking to raise €1.1 million driven by British investors to fund the development of its technology

Disciplinary meeting for Enoch Burke may not go ahead as teacher still in jail

Barrister for Wilson’s Hospital School in Westmeath says case is ‘not about transgenderism’, but about ignoring a court order

Foley expands exemption list for studying Irish language

Students with a ‘high level of multiple and persistent needs’ may be allowed to skip Irish as a compulsory subject

Government may cut health insurance rule for international study visas

Critics have warned that the requirement, on top of fees and accommodation costs, may put international students off coming to Ireland

University challenge: Trinity’s €400m revamp at risk as projects hit by delays, cuts and inflation

Board documents show Ireland’s oldest university is pursuing Chinese investment and hiking international student fees, as spiralling costs pose major challenges to its planned modernisation of the campus

Higher Education

TCD provost warned that university would cut student services without fee hikes

The college’s board was told that inflationary pressures and government underfunding could force Trinity to abandon the ‘fee certainty’ principle for thousands of students

James McDermott: Our education system has emerged from Covid in need of treatment

From grade inflation to trainee teachers checking state exams to the likelihood of chunks of the third-level syllabus being dropped, education has taken quite a battering in the pandemic

Higher Education

Top university tells staff to ‘strongly recommend’ mask-wearing amid concern over future Covid surge

Trinity said Covid was likely to ‘continue to interrupt our plans for normal functioning in the coming months’, with several other universities also preparing contingency plans if cases rise