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Higher Education

Education

Degrees of separation: academics divided over opening up of elite Trinity social club

College officials want to change the rules of the SCR, a social club open only to high-ranking staff members, but some academics are opposed to the move
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 19, 2023
Higher Education

Universities warn taxpayer funding needed to plug gap left by ‘golden visa’ scheme

Trinity College Dublin has taken in at least €17 million from wealthy overseas investors since 2018 to fund capital projects
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 17, 2023
Higher Education

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
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 7, 2023
Morning Headlines

Warning over appointing new Bord Pleanála members; Indeed Ireland’s billion-euro year

The stories you need to read this morning from the worlds of business, politics and current affairs
  • Business Post
  • November 23, 2022
Higher Education

Trinity College cash pile to rise above €200m as international students return

Confidential documents show the university enjoyed a better-than-expected year following the return of non-EU students post-pandemic
  • Donal MacNamee
  • November 18, 2022
Housing

Universities warned state over inflation and planning issues amid student housing shortage

Several universities told the government their attempts to create new beds were being disrupted by cost pressures or issues with planning permission
  • Donal MacNamee
  • November 17, 2022
Property

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
  • Donal MacNamee
  • September 17, 2022
Education

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
  • Donal MacNamee
  • September 3, 2022
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
  • Donal MacNamee
  • September 2, 2022
education

Doubts over University of Limerick’s new city centre campus due to funding shortfall

New documents seen by the Business Post show the government was warned just 300 students could be educated at the former Dunnes site instead of the planned 4,000 without an €87m government grant
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 8, 2022

Universities say state funding a ‘fraction’ of what’s required to tackle investment gap

Universities association says government’s funding plans have done little to address the underlying core funding deficit in the sector
  • Donal MacNamee
  • February 21, 2022

Further scrutiny for UCD over €2m deal with Tullow Oil

Higher Education Authority to seek confirmation from university that its agreement with the company did not contribute to climate and biodiversity crises
  • Donal MacNamee
  • July 10, 2021

State warned more funding is needed at GMIT’s Mayo campus due to a growing deficit

A new report recommends voluntary redundancies as deficit is viewed as unlikely to fall in line with targets set by state
  • Donal MacNamee
  • July 9, 2021

IADT boss: ‘Many of the changes we have implemented during Covid-19 will stay’

David Smith, who took up the presidency of the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology at the start of the pandemic, believes the past year has forced a rethink that will benefit students in the future
  • Eva Short
  • July 4, 2021

Public Accounts Committee to seek answers from Dundalk IT as ice dome remains vacant

Ice hockey association has accused DKIT of stalling as three years of negotiations over country’s only purpose-built ice dome have failed to yield agreement
  • Donal MacNamee
  • June 3, 2021

Trinity could survive without state funding, provost says

Outgoing head of college, which gets 40 per cent of its revenue from government, says independence and autonomy of universities must be maintained
  • Sarah Taaffe-Maguire
  • April 7, 2021

National College of Ireland hit by ransomware attack

All IT systems at third-level institution have been suspended as it investigates breach
  • Eva Short
  • April 6, 2021

Making It Work: GoCreate targets good results with remote exams platform

The Dublin firm plans to raise €2.5 million to roll out new AI exam tech which it will sell to colleges and universities
  • Elaine O'Regan
  • February 25, 2021

New diploma course to give advertising industry professional stamp of approval

The Commercial Creative Communications course has been developed by TU Dublin and IAPI in line with changing trends in the field
  • Elaine O'Regan
  • January 24, 2021

Comment: 2021 must be the year to fix higher education funding

Solving the sector’s funding problem has the potential not only to contribute to our post-pandemic recovery but to underpin the next decade and more of growth
  • Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh
  • January 20, 2021

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