USI President John Logue has hit out at comments made by the Irish boss of the world’s biggest payment firm, PayPal, who stated graduate employees carry a sense of entitlement and are not hungry enough Read more…
DCU’s ‘Surf n Sail’ club have presented a cheque for over €800 to the Howth Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Over 30 students from the club braved the frosty waters of Balscadden Bay near Howth Read more…
The Australian Internships company has set up its first Irish office, giving hundreds of students around the country new opportunities for work placements abroad. The new establishment will offer six-month work placements to students from Read more…
The students of NUI Galway have decided that their college will take a pro-choice stance on abortion. This comes after 2,478 of the 3,454 students that voted in the referendum supported NUI Galway adopting a pro-choice Read more…
DCU graduation ceremonies will now take place on the Friday and Saturday of November’s reading week. The registry made the decision to change the days from Monday and Tuesday to Friday and Saturday because of Read more…
Social media is a wonderful thing. It has broken down so many communication barriers that it can be seen as a purely positive invention. However, problems caused by social media have come under the spotlight in recent times. These Read more…
DCU graduate, Helen McEntee, feels she shouldn’t be penalised because of her family name as she prepares to run in the Meath East by-election for Fine Gael. Speaking to The College View, McEntee says that Read more…
A greater collaboration from DCU Students’ Union could have made the DCU SU RAG week an even bigger success, according to co-chairperson of RAG Soc SallyAnn Downes. The week, which ran from Monday March 11th, Read more…
DCU Students’ Union have been invited to the Union of Students’ in Ireland’s national congress meeting due to take place next week. USI President John Logue said he has been in contact with DCU SU Read more…
DCU student Sineád Foy finished in an impressive second place in the gradireland National Student Challenge last week. Foy was one of over 5,600 students who entered the competition, which began last October, by completing a 40-minute Read more…
The Electoral Committee would have failed to reach quorum in the USI referendum if it wasn’t for the USI’s presence on campus during the campaign, according to the President of the Union of Students in Read more…
A new ‘moodle’ platform will be launched for DCU students in September. New designs put forward by Mark Glynn of the Learning Innovation Unit are set to revitalise the online resource. Speaking at a workshop Read more…
DCU students are set to face another referendum next year. A committee has been put in place to assess and amend the current Students’ Union constitution. The constitutional review committee was put in place after Read more…
There has been a large increase in the demand for science courses in DCU, according to recent CAO figures. As many as eight courses in the faculty of science have received an increased number of Read more…
Claims that Larkfield on campus accommodation is illegal or sub standard have been slammed by DCU Students’ Union President, Paul Doherty. Speaking to the College View, Doherty said: “I have great confidence in the University, Read more…
The family of murdered DCU student Nicola Furlong have traveled to Japan to attend the trial of the man accused of killing her. A Business and Japanese student at DCU, 21-year-old Nicola was studying on Read more…
The campaign for the USI referendum was unfair, according to DCU Students’ Union President Paul Doherty. Responding to the results of the referendum, Doherty told The College View “you can’t compete with an organisation the Read more…
Music week in DCU is one of the highlights of the academic year. Events officer, Jessica Dowdall said, “Music Week has been our busiest, most wonderfully packed week so far this year. We offered something Read more…
There is no way that we can ever understand what Marie Fleming and her family are going through. We can never know what it is like, unless, heaven forbid, we are thrust into such a Read more…
Something I hear all the time is that DCU is special because of its sense of community. There’s a subtle energy about the place, as if anything could happen and everything is possible. Feeling like Read more…
DCU Raising and Giving week will focus on fundraising in a move away from the traditional drinking associated with the event. Organised in conjunction with the DCU Students’ Union, RAG week will run in Week Read more…
The Labour DCU Chairperson and USI representative on campus has defended the USI’s controversial presence on campus during the re-affiliation referendum campaign. Sean Rooney told The College View a lot was made of the fact Read more…
DCU is the first university in Ireland to be designated an ‘Ashoka U Changemaker Campus’, joining a network of colleges and universities supporting the field of social entrepreneurship in education. The ‘Changemaker Campus’ is a worldwide Read more…
University College Dublin students have decided to split from the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) with a 63% majority from 2700 votes. The university now has one year to notify USI of its intentions Read more…
Postgraduate degrees available in Ireland are of a weak standard compared to those offered elsewhere, a top Irish professor has said. Delivering an address as part of the Seamus Heaney Lecture Series in St. Patrick’s Read more…