Slingshot Academy Aims to Help Secondary School Students Succeed
Secondary school students are being challenged to make better college choices when their turn to fill out the CAO comes around, thanks to a new educational charity run by a…
Times Higher Education Ranking Sees UCD Reclaim Top 200 Status
The Times Higher Education (THE) International University Rankings published for 2015 has seen UCD climb 53 places to sit in the 176th-200th bracket. The findings come following a disappointing 2014…
GNIB Slowdown hits International Students
The Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) has requested that students do not attend its offices at Burgh Quay in Dublin City Centre citing an inability to process the number of…
New York Fashion Week Womenswear Spring Summer 2016 Report
In the words of Anna Wintour, there were indeed “two schools of thought” this season at New York Fashion Week. The collections presented at the vast majority of womenswear shows…
Same Same But Different
Tech editor Graham Harkness takes a look at the new iPhone 6s The new iPhone 6s is due to come out this week. Will it break the traditional apple cycle…
Book Fund Launched for Students in Financial Difficulty
UCD Students’ Union (UCDSU) has launched a Book Fund to help cover the costs of books for students in financial difficulty. The Fund is part of a partnership between UCDSU…
Suas 8×8 Festival Comes to UCD
Suas, an educational development charity, will be bringing its 8×8 Festival to UCD from 28th September to 2nd October, in conjunction with UCD Suas Group and UCD Students’ Union (UCDSU).…
News in Focus: QS Rankings, University Funding and EY
Cian Carton examines how the debates over the QS World Rankings and third level-funding in Ireland and could be a minor sideshow to a different issue. The release of the…
Survey Claims that Driving is a “Must” for Graduate Jobs
Enterprise Rent-A-Car, a company which provides replacement vehicles and courtesy cars in Ireland, has released the results of survey on students’ perceptions of driving. 1, 500 students in second and…
Memorial Football Match Held for Berkley Victim
Staff and students from the School of History and Archives came together on Thursday 24th September to hold a football match in memory of Niccolai Schuster, one of three UCD…
Further Slip for UCD in QS World University Rankings
UCD has dropped 15 places, down to 139th, in the latest findings of the QS World University Rankings, which was published last week. The result reflects a downward trend for…
UCDSU attends March For Choice
Members of UCD Students’ Union (UCDSU) attended the fourth annual March for Choice in Dublin city centre on Saturday, 26th September. Organised by the Abortion Rights Campaign, the Irish Times…