All of the latest on and off campus news.
By Frances Mulraney International Day ‘‘could have been a much bigger event’’ if it was spread across a number of days, according to the Islamic Society at DCU. As part of Identity Week, campus was Read more…
By Aisling Kett Mature students in DCU say Budget 2012 will make it more difficult to return to education at a time when people need to further their qualifications to become more employable. The overall Read more…
By Aisling Short Scrapping maintenance grants for new postgraduate students will lower registration numbers and discourage those termed ‘the disadvantaged’ from applying for postgraduate degrees, according to Dr. Lisa Looney, the newly appointed Dean of Read more…
By Frances Mulraney and Emma Jane Hade DCU’s Raising and Giving (RAG) Society raised €5,022.83 with the university’s first ever white collar boxing event as more than 30 DCU students took to the ring last Read more…
By Noelle Smith Oh yes she did! Lisa Keegan’s unorthodox yet hilarious version of a ‘happily ever after’ fairytale was a hit in DCU with sold out shows nearly every night. Crappily Ever After tells Read more…
By Aishling Phelan The President of DCU, Brian MacCraith, says that students don’t realise that the €250 increase in next year’s registration fee will not result in a higher quality education because the money will Read more…
by Chloe O Sullivan The ’12 Business Days of Christmas’ initiative launched yesterday as the government introduced a tough budget for the coming year. The project, led by Dublin City University Business School and supported Read more…
By Sorcha Jowitt The information system and services (ISS) department may have accidentally wiped five days of students work some of which may not be retrievable. The College View spoke to an ISS worker who Read more…
Cillian Byrne apologises for his part in blockade By Aishling Phelan The Union of Students in Ireland broke the law on the day of the ‘Stop Fees, Save the Grant’ protest by excluding certain groups Read more…
By Sorcha Jowtt DCU’s Amnesty International Society gathered outside the Henry Grattan Building last Thursday with groups of balloons that symbolised Irish women living with domestic abuse. The event was held to celebrate the International Read more…
By Suzanne Cooper Plans to build brand new state-of-the art libraries at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) and the University of Limerick (UL) have been scrapped due recent Government cutbacks. The Government made the Read more…
By Eimear Phelan UCD St Vincent de Paul’s fourth Annual Homeless Week raised €800 euro in its first day. The event, which took place from November 14-18, saw around 30 students sleep outside the James Read more…
By Aisling Short Many students will not be able to continue in third-level education if grant cuts are announced on budget day, according to the newly appointed Dean of Graduate Studies, Dr Lisa Looney. Dr Read more…
By Aoife Mullen This year’s CAO offers indicated a change in course preferences, with students opting for the degrees they believe will offer them more job prospects. Many of the Leaving Cert students that attended Read more…
By Eimear Phelan “Freedom of the press is the yardstick used to measure free societies” is just one of the sentiments from the heated and highly contested media debate on Tuesday last week, an event Read more…
By Grainne Coyne and Aishling Phelan Rumours that university fees will increase to €5,000 next year were just “scaremongering” according to Deputy President of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), Colm Murphy. Speaking to Read more…
By Chloe O’Sullivan Only 17 cases of plagiarism were uncovered in DCU last year, despite the findings of a College View survey showing that two in three DCU students have committed plagiarism in some form. Read more…
By Lauren Kelly An arrest was made on campus last week for the theft of bicycles. Bicycle thefts have risen dramatically on the DCU campus in the past number of weeks. An Garda Síochana have Read more…
By Aisling Brady Seventy per cent of DCU students would break off a relationship if their boyfriend or girlfriend had a “one night stand” according to a recent survey on fidelity. Eight-eight percent of respondents Read more…
By Aisling Kett The Old Bar has been closed indefinitely due to serious health and safety concerns and cannot be used under any circumstances. A total of 23 problems forced its closure, including a lock Read more…
By Monica Heck A guest lecture on the topic of marriage equality was given to DCU social studies students by Grainne Healy, chairwoman of the Marriage Equality organisation, last week. Alongside her duties as chairwoman Read more…
By Oonagh O Farrell Seven of Ireland’s third level institutions have launched a new Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) PhD programme, one of the largest projects of its kind in the world. The project has Read more…
By Adam Higgins Dublin City University is one of the only Irish universities to have gone up in the QS World University Rankings this year. DCU rose three places to become the 326th best university Read more…
By Róisín Treacy Greater emphasis will be placed on funding for social sciences and humanities research in Horizon 2020, according to European Union Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn. The former Fianna Fáil minister confirmed this change to Read more…