Tallyman

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 [...]

15th and 16th June 2010 – The Helix, DCU The university has changed more dramatically over the last 20 years than in the previous 100 years.  Globalization has had a major impact in terms of transforming the structure, functions, and whole raison d’étre of the university. Now we have had a global recession which is [...]

Cynthia Ozick, a US writer once said: “It is the function of a liberal university not to give the right answers, but to ask the right questions.” In my humble opinion questioning one’s beliefs and challenging one’s ideals is core to a successful academic career. After all sacred cows make the best hamburgers! DCU is [...]

The Sunday Indepenent on 17th Jan carried a story entitled ‘Grant-aided students buying more booze than books‘. To summarise a ESRI report will state that students who receive the third level maintenance grant spend three times more on booze and socialising than on books and college related aids. According to the Sindo the report indicates [...]

Minister for Education and Science Batt O’Keeffe joined me in studio on Wednesday to discuss third level funding, maintenance grants, the registration fee and of course tuition fees. During the interview Minister O’Keeffe reveals his reasons for opening the tuition fees debate, plans for the rate of the maintenance grant for the next academic year [...]