His parents were teachers and he wanted to be a teacher, but he became an engineer because he was strong in maths and it seemed to make sense.

A unique pre-famine manuscript covering the period leading up to and including the Great Famine was recently presented to Glucksman Library.

The Saudi Ministry for Higher Education is denying all knowledge of the six and a half year contract claimed by the new Citywest Institute of Education.

A unique tool has been launched which allows people wishing to advance their career opportunities to find a course that will fit their schedule.

Students and teachers should note that the deadline for applications for the Ireland Canada University Foundation’s Irish language awards is March 5.

An International English and Foundation Third Level College has opened in west Dublin with the promise of 300 jobs and a boost for the local economy.

On Feb 18, NUI Galway and University of Limerick announced a Strategic Alliance which will lead to major co-operation between the two institutions.

Educator and entrepreneur Dr Seán Rowland was in Haiti last month to progress his endeavour to set up a National Institute for Teacher Education.

The presidents and general secretaries of the the four education unions - ASTI, IFUT, INTO and TUI - issued a joint statement on January 25:

While union leaders still insist that all options for industrial action are on the table, there seems to be no real appetite for all-out strikes.

Students and teachers with Irish are being encouraged to apply before March 5 for third level teaching positions at universities in Canada.

After more than a century in existence, the National University of Ireland (NUI) is to be dissolved and its functions redistributed.

The new IoTI Chair is Dr Ruaidhrí Neavyn, a Dublin man with family roots in Carlow, who has been Director and now President of IT Carlow since 2004.

Schools, colleges, universities, businesses and other institutions engaged in language initiatives are invited to apply for European Language Label award.

Four separate qualifications bodies at third level are to be abolished and replaced by a new entity, as part of government’s rationalisation programme.

Earlier this month, Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) issued a letter to students warning that they must pay €500 of registration fee by 11 Dec.

A lecturer who made controversial remarks on his internet blog about the president of DCU has admitted that the language he used was “over the top”.

Following claims that some third level registration fees are being deployed away from student services, Minister Batt O’Keeffe has ordered a survey.

Almost all of TCD’s 2,676 staff members downed tools to join the national one-day protest against government proposals to cut public sector pay.

Fianna Fail TD Brendan Keneally said it is “extraordinary” that lecturers in Institutes of Technology teach for only 480 out of 560 contracted hours.