Pretty Little Thing sample sale met with protest
Gavin Tracey
Freshers' Tent walkout for Climate Strike sparks anger with Societies Council
UCD grant partial amnesty to students for Global Climate Strike
Avengers: Endgame is a supremely entertaining but forgettable three hours
Varadkar rules out student loans as universities struggle to bridge funding gap
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has ruled out any options for third level funding that would see an increase in fees or the implementation of a student loan scheme. His comments come after protests and lobbying from Students’ Unions and USI. He had previously made comments voicing his opposition to a US or UK style student loan scheme, although he refused to categorically rule them out until recently…
Does the media serve democracy or undermine it?
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New study suggests that the gender gap in STEM fields begins in school
A new study published by the UCD Centre for Economic Research has shown that the subjects female students choose in secondary school will greatly influence whether or not they go on to study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects in university.…
Bids to join new European Universities Network pour in
The EU are seeking to establish a European Educational Area, through strengthening existing ties between European universities, as well as establishing some 20 “European Universities” by 2024.…
New teachers being poached to work abroad as teacher shortage worsens
British universities’ place in EU research projects uncertain
IrishPostgraduate Conference warned of the threat populism poses to academia
Underfunding in higher education leaves Ireland unequipped to deal with Brexit
Turkey’s purge of academia
National News in Brief
Campus News in Brief: Mental Health Week, #RaiseTheRoof & Rebecca Carter starts in UCD
Dáil Predictions and Aims
The housing occupation movement
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Universities “reaching for the cheque books” in HR cases
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