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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

Science Gallery set for ‘totally reimagined’ relaunch next year

Rescue bid for the Trinity College Dublin exhibition space failed earlier this year but the government will provide the gallery with funding of €300,000 annually for three to four years

Finding and funding academic entrepreneurs while fixing holes in Ireland’s spin-out ecosystem

Growing evidence suggests our higher education institutions are underachieving when it comes to commercialising research, Ian Campbell reports

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

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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

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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

‘Hyperinflation’ poses fresh challenge for Trinity’s €100m E3 learning institute

Leaked documents show the college’s board was warned that rising costs and nearly 30 claims from the main contractor could impact plans for the project

Trinity pushed state for details on future of ‘cash-for-visas’ scheme in €20m Chinese investor plan

University later discussed plan to capitalise on fears in China that IIP could be scrapped in bid to maximise earnings for multimillion-euro capital projects

Trinity in plan to maximise ‘cash for visas’ earnings due to concerns scheme could be scrapped

A memo, seen by the Business Post, told board members at the university that there was a ‘short window of opportunity’ to raise extra cash from Chinese investors amid fears the Immigrant Investor Programme could close due to pressure from Europe

Social media platform shows firms how to take the decisive next Step

Joanna Mulkeen of One Step Closer explains how the social engagement platform is aiming to establish itself as ‘the default option for brands to tell their sustainability story’

TCD spin-out Biologit raises €1 million from investors

The tech firm’s backers include Longboat Clinical founder Gerard Ryan and life sciences veteran David Shanahan

AI accelerator holds half its places for female-founded firms

Alsessor scheme’s winning start-up will receive €250,000 equity investment, which can be matched by Enterprise Ireland

Science Gallery staff told they’ll be let go despite ongoing government talks

Employees of the venue at Trinity College were contacted yesterday to say they will still lose their jobs, yet all staff and students were emailed yesterday to say the board of the university is in negotiations to save the gallery

State strives to keep Science Gallery open

Trinity College Dublin planned to close the exhibition venue due to financial constraints, but multiple departments are working to find a solution

Trinity College to close Science Gallery

University no longer considers the venue for science and technology based exhibitions and lectures to be financially viable

Ireland needs up to 500,000 new apartments to be built, Trinity College economist says

‘Vast bulk of missing housing’ is in apartment stock, according to Ronan Lyons

Trinity to get HSE pop-up vaccination centre

Move is part of government drive to get more young people vaccinated

Lucinda Creighton: We need to talk about who will call the shots in a post-Covid world

The government has been led in its decisions on the pandemic by Nphet, an unelected body that favours conformity of opinion within its ranks, but as we move towards ‘Living with Covid’, it is time to reinstate proper democratic accountability and transparency

‘Significant lack of transparency’ around key Covid-19 decisions, according to report

State sometimes failed to learn lessons from different stages of the pandemic and must do more to clarify the nature of its relationship with Nphet, Trinity report says

TCD scheme accelerates ten young start-ups towards success

The Launchbox entrepreneurship course has nurtured firms such as FoodCloud and Artomatix in their infancy