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The Minister for Education and Science, Batt O’Keefe, has announced plans to dissolve the National Union of Ireland. The NUI incorporates four of the main Irish universities- University College Dublin, University College Cork, NUI Maynooth and NUI Galway. Minister O’Keefe …
OXFORD STUDENTS OUTRAGED BY SPOTIFY BAN
Students at the University of Oxford expressed shock last week at the prestigious institution’s decision to ban the popular music-sharing program Spotify. According to the university newspaper Cherwell, students were “baffled” when …
British Universities are facing cuts of more than £900 million over the next three years, according to a new report.
Leaders of Britain’s most celebrated universities have warned that government plans to cut funding will lead to a higher-education “meltdown”.…
Post-recessionary Ireland is not the only place where students fear the return of tuition fees. But while the recent student agitation in Ireland was concerned only with the possible re-introduction of fees, the students of Germany have a considerable list …
The problems faced by Indian students in Australia brought thousands of students to the streets in June 2009. International, as well as Australian students, were marching against violent attacks against Indians in Melbourne and Sydney.
But it is another international …
The new, technologically advanced Criminal Courts pose a threat to the right to personal privacy, according to Sarah Fulham-McQuillan. She examines the murder trial of Eamonn Lillis for evidence of this problem.
Throughout history there has always been a huge …
Irony has been an unfortunate centerpiece of popular culture for too long. Charlie Baker hopes this tiresome reverence doesn’t carry on.
My compulsive addiction to lists and listing really reached a high water mark in December, at the culmination of …
Following a series of delays, some physicists have begun to ask if the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is being sabotaged by the future. Aoife Crowley investigates this strange hypothesis to see if God really does hate Higgs Bosen …
On Tuesday evening, there is a meeting of both the CSC, and, seperately, the Student’s Union Council. At these meetings, it is hoped, a matter regarding the Capitations Committee will be discussed: namely, that …
THE CAMPANILE has been a recognisable symbol of this college since it was erected in 1852. Descriptions of its architectural merits can be read in many books about the college, most of them pointing out the four philosophers and the …