Meet the Candidates – UCDSU Elections 2021
The countdown to this year’s University College Dublin Students Union (UCDSU) sabbatical elections has officially begun. This year’s election will once again be held online, with voting open between the…
Library Curtailments Indicative of UCD Management Failures, Says UCDSU
University College Dublin’s Students Union (UCDSU) has criticised the University’s Management Team (UMT) for failing to provide the necessary funds to run its libraries efficiently during the pandemic. This ‘failure’…
UCD Spent €8.6 million Without Following Public Sector Spending Guidelines in 2020
University College Dublin (UCD) has admitted to breaking procurement rules after spending over €8 million outside of public sector procurement guidelines. The expenditure was recently highlighted in the university’s financial…
UCD’s New Album ‘Grade Sans Appeals’| Newsround 16th-20th November
If deadlines are making you resemble Rudy Giuliani at a Trump press conference, sweat not! We’ve trimmed this week’s most cutting-edge student news into bite-size pieces for you to read…
Zoom University Renewed for Spring! | Newsround 7th-14th November
Whether you’re barely surviving this point in the semester or are reading this from beyond your paper-strewn, deadline-buried deathbed, here’s a look at the news that may not have reached…
Breaking: Online Teaching to Continue in Spring Trimester
The majority of teaching will continue online next trimester, University College Dublin (UCD) has announced, as the university plans to continue operating under the current government restrictions beyond the current…
What Happened in UCD This Week? Newsround – 2nd-6th November!
It’s week 7, the evenings are dark and the deadlines are piling up – Here’s the news you may have missed while catching up on the work you *should* have…
What Happened in UCD This Week? 25th – 30th October!
It’s ‘Reading Week’ – but, unlike students with looming deadlines, news never sleeps. Here’s a roundup of the best stories you might have missed this week. Medicine Students to Withhold…
What Happened Last Week in UCD? Newsround 19th – 25th October 2020
Last week, the Belfield campus saw the completion of the University College Dublin Students’ Union class rep elections, while Ireland moved to a 6-week level 5 lockdown. UCD reacted by…
UCDSU Class Rep Elections See 63% of Positions Uncontested
Online elections for this year’s University College Dublin Students’ Union (UCDSU) Class Representatives took place on the 14th/15th of October. However, the voting was struck by reports of students struggling…
450 CAO Offers to Change Due to Leaving Cert Error
Up to 450 students who received their Central Applications Office (CAO) offers for third-level courses in the past month are due to have their offers revised in the coming week.…
Third-Level Institutions Sought to Help Fix Leaving Cert Student Places
On Wednesday September 30th, it was announced that a possible 7,200 students who received predicted Leaving Cert grades have had a grade miscalculated as a result of an error in…