Applications are invited for a unique degree course which sees students receiving an incremental salary over three years of study, and tuition fees paid.

A sexual harassment complaint against a lecturer who showed a female colleague a research paper on the sexual activities of bats has been upheld.

From September 2010, Marino Institute of Education will deliver courses for the 4-year B.Ed degree and the H.Dip in Ed (Primary) on the Marino campus.

Athlone Institute of Technology has become the first higher education institution in Ireland to sign a collaboration agreement with the ISPCA.

Minister for Education Mary Coughlan has written to College Heads asking them to modify the entry requirement of a pass in higher level maths.

The Annual Delegate Conference of the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) was held in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin, on April 24.

Addressing the IFUT conference, Mike Jennings spoke of the anger and shame of Irish people, and the sense of belittlement of public sector workers.

“IFUT advises members not to co-operate with work load management or full economic costing [FEC] models that are not negotiated and agreed with the union.”

Kieran Mulvey, chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission, was the first general secretary of IFUT - appointed almost 35 years ago at the age of 24.

UCD, now ranked among the top 100 universities worldwide, is to increase its intake of post-graduate and foreign students in order to boost its income.

Hard on the heels of the furor about grade inflation and graduate quality, the news now is that Irish Universities are top of an EU ‘efficiency’ league table.

Today’s Cabinet reshuffle saw Tánaiste Mary Coughlan switched to Education and Batt O’Keeffe moved to Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

Department officials are drawing up proposals for a one third reduction in the country’s 33 VECs with a view to bringing them before Cabinet within weeks.

On March 19, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn delivered her first public address in Ireland since becoming European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science.

Padraig Walsh, CEO of the Irish Universities Quality Board (IUQB) comments on recent articles on IUQB, quality assurance, grade inflation, quality of Universities.

A Department of Education ‘profile analysis’ of grades awarded at Leaving Cert and Higher Education levels has found evidence of ’significant’ inflation.

A study carried out by Patricia Callaghan, academic secretary at Trinity College Dublin, shows dramatic increases in first class and 2.1 degrees.

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.