ASTI head voices extreme disappointment over provisions for new entrants

Donal Colum O’Cleirigh obituary: Born: November 21st, 1932 – Died: May 15th, 2017

After 200 years Rathmines college of education closure occurred with one day’s notice

These days, all the focus seems to be on how science and technology are the ‘sexy’ subjects everyone should be doing, but employers say arts courses develop crucial skills for the modern workplace

President of NUI Galway says a focus on research and teaching has paid off

Damaging effects of higher education cutbacks now obvious, say TCD and UCD heads

Anecdotal evidence says earning capacity of arts graduates increases after five years

Key decision-making bodies in colleges must be gender balanced, HEA report says

Report finds up to two-thirds of third-level teachers not in full-time or permanent jobs

Move may have significant implications for other colleges and public sector employers

Only 19 per cent of professors are women despite recent gender equality initiatives

College seeks order against Siptu and IFUT extending picket over Tyndall pay dispute

Ireland’s research policy runs counter to EU proposals

Representative says university staff feel too isolated to take gender discrimination cases

Irish Federation of University Teachers says females given less than a fifth of professor grades

Unions say staff being paid less money to do same work as colleagues in UCC

Leading Tyndall researcher left in disagreement over pay and conditions

Policy decisions are taken without considering policy and planning. Irish universities have absorbed serious funding cuts and now face a crisis

Government risk destroying `fabric of industrial relations’, union agm told

Government risks “destroying the fabric of industrial relations”, AGM in Dublin was told