The College View has carried out an investigation into the living conditions within the on-campus St. Patrick’s College accommodation, following a rent increase of 38 per cent this academic year.
DIT VP for Welfare Tara O’Brien organised an “Addiction Awareness” campaign this month to change the way students think about addiction. Read more…
[dropcap]R[/dropcap]oughly 700 SIPTU members working in Trinity College Dublin are set to ballot for industrial and strike action in a dispute over the failure of being granted permanent contracts from management. Among the 700 non-academic Read more…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]rinity College Dublin has been found to be in breach of advertising guidelines regarding a course listing on the university’s website.
Trinity College Dublin students have votes in favour of the introduction of Christmas exams beginning in the academic year 2018/19 according, to the Trinity Student Union. Read more…
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]rinity College’s proposed purchase of Iveagh Grounds sports facility is set to save a number of sports clubs from relocation according to the chairman of the Guinness Athletic Union.
[dropcap]The [/dropcap]number of students applying to study in the UK has dropped by about 20% since the Brexit vote in 2016.
Four thousand ecstasy pills and herbal cannabis were seized in Galway, all of which were suspected to be destined for the unofficial Galway ‘rag week.’
The long journey for Donegal students travelling to DCU could become even more painful, if a hard border is placed between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland Read more…
Sociology and media studies classes are required in the Irish education system to combat fake news and the far-right, university lecturers suggest. Read more…
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ollowing Temporary Exclusion Last Year, Trinity Ranked 131st in World by Times Higher Education.
DCU is owed €165,000 in charges by just over 100 students, says records found by the Irish Times last week.
The number of Irish students going on Erasmus is at a record high with about 3,200 students going on the exchange programme each year whilst the country takes in about 6,300 from other European nations according to The Higher Education Authority.
Students could be subject to poor conditions when renting off-the-books from people who use homes belonging to elderly people placed in nursing homes as a tool for undocumented additional income. Read more…
[dropcap]Tr[/dropcap]inity College Dublin are to redevelop Oisín House on Pearse Street into a 250-bed accommodation project after receiving verbal confirmation from Dublin City Council.
HEA report suggests rising student numbers and no change in funding will have a negative effect on graduate quality. Read more…
Trinity College Dublin Student’s Union’s (TCDSU) council voted last week to elect an Ethics Minority Officer onto their executive. This position arose shorty after TCDSU President Kieran McNulty decided to utilise the structures and strength of the Union to ensure all students’ voices are heard.
Students at NUI Galway are protesting against a decision to remove fluency in the Irish language as a requirement for the next President of the University.
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] University of Limerick has issued a warning to their student body following an outbreak of Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia on campus. The university confirmed to the Limerick Leader that 14 cases of gonorrhoea are “associated Read more…
Around 1,000 students taking the Leaving Cert in 2017 will benefit from the recent changes made to the Reasonable Accommodation at the Certificate Examinations scheme. Read more…
The USI made a submission to the strategy for the rented sector Read more…
Trinity College Dublin joined the League of European Research Universities this month as the first Irish university to join the network.
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]here has been backlash among the students and staff of UCD following the President of UCD, Andrew Deeks’ proposal to remove Latin from UCD degrees and graduation ceremonies.
With the J1 visa applications having opened on the 17th of November, students across many campuses in Ireland are signing up to spend a summer abroad next year. Ireland had the fifth highest number of Read more…
Students seeking asylum in Ireland are not eligible for the free fees scheme, leaving many unable to afford a third-level education. Read more…