Banking Exclusive: Expanding Central Bank’s powers ‘risks a new financial crash’Major financial services firms including BlackRock and State Street have called for the regulator to have its pre-crash role in supporting the sector restored
Artificial Intelligence €11.6m UCC programme to use AI in screening for cerebral palsy Initiative will make Ireland a ‘world-leading hub’ in early brain injury and cerebral palsy screening
Energy Analysis: Energy prices may drop a further 20% this year but cuts hinge on stable gas marketEstimates by Paul Deane of the MaREI institute in UCC suggest electricity prices could fall a further 15-20 per cent this year
funding NeuroBell secures €2.1m to launch device that detects seizures in babiesUCC spin-out currently seeking FDA approval for its pocked-sized device with an intention to launch the solution commercially in 2025 at the latest
Sponsored Cork 2023: UCC ranks as one of world’s greenest universitiesUniversity College Cork among world’s top third-level institutions in sustainable practices according to Times Higher Education Impact Rankings
Explainer Energy hedging means prices won’t be coming down anytime soonThe same mechanism by which retail energy companies protected us from the worst of last year’s skyrocketing wholesale prices will slow and reduce any downward trend
Economics Economists round on President over ‘lazy’ and ‘uninformed spiel’Michael D Higgins claimed economists in Ireland were ‘stuck in an inexorable growth narrative’
Pensions Harris asked to intervene in UCC €16m academic pensions top-ups rowMinister has agreed to help sort out long-running dispute between the university and the Higher Education Authority over who should foot the bill
Climate & Environment Electrical emissions reach highest level in over five yearsAn analysis by the MaREI Centre at UCC has found that carbon emissions from the electricity sector have risen to their highest level since 2017
UCC professor: forget potholes, ask TDs about research insteadJohn Cryan, vice-president of research innovation at UCC, said scientific advances were needed to deal with further crises such as climate change
HEA to get new powers to probe misuse of third-level fundsMinister for Higher Education also planning to ‘slim down’ boards of universities, which can have 40 members