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Students this year have been finding it increasingly difficult to get any information on the third level grants for the upcoming academic year; or at least easily understood information. You can get all the infor on the Citizen’s Information portal here, as always. Universities and the USI have been encouraging students to apply early and [...]

St. Patrick’s College, a constituent college of Dublin City University, is set to launch the first Masters of Teaching for primary and secondary teachers in Ireland in September 2011, if approval is given.   The masters programme, which is expected to be approved at the February 9 Academic Council meeting, is a part-time programme and [...]

Three DCU Research Professors at one point earned cumulatively €555,645 per annum a Comptroller and Auditor General Report (C&AG) has revealed. The three professors were awarded the salaries of €194,973 for one professor with the other two earning €146,772 each. The contracts also included allowances of €33,564 for the two lower paid professors. The C&AG [...]

Shameless plug for DCU ahead…. A free online seminar is taking place this Thursday at 11am about DCU’s new Graduate Certificate in Digital Marketing. DCU designed this course in collaboration with Irish industry. They found that many professionals currently in marketing positions graduated in a traditional media environment. They were asked for a short-term, rapid turnaround course with a [...]

I was speaking at a higher education conference this week called ‘Re-inventing the University’ which was jointly hosted by Dublin City University and Arizona State University (ASU). The conference itself was highly informative and some revoluntionary concepts for higher education were discussed. The ASU President Michael Crow delivered an excellent paper on the formulae ASU [...]