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…
Covid-19 Assessment Guidelines Pulled, No Prospects for Renewal
UCDSU President Conor Anderson took to the ‘UCD No Detriment Policy’ Facebook group on October 30th to update the students that the Covid-19 Assessment Guidelines were no longer in place.…
UCD Economics Student Charged with Money Laundering
A UCD economics student has been charged and held in custody under money laundering charges in relation to a €1.4 million money-laundering investigation. The UCD student, Cheng Yu, is accused…
UCD ranked 3rd in The Irish Good University Guide 2021
University College Dublin (UCD) remains one of the top 3 universities in Ireland in 2020, according to the latest QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings and the Sunday Times. The…
Debts and Deep Pockets: The L&H and LawSoc
Typically considered competitors, University College Dublin’s (UCD) two debating societies, the Law Society (LawSoc) and the Literary & Historical Society (L&H) have shown opposite financial trends in recent years. This…
UCD To Receive Greatest Cut of €15 Million Government Grant
A €15 million grant for the furthering of campus infrastructure in colleges across Ireland has been announced by Simon Harris. The funding will be provided by the Department of Further…
UCD Digital Surgery Becomes Lead Academic Partner on a new €2.4 million Covid-19 research project
UCD (University College Dublin) Digital Surgery is the lead academic partner on a project supporting new surgical technologies. The project is funded by the EU and aims to provide safer…
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…
RTÉ Announce Docuseries Showing Disadvantaged University Students
The Irish Universities Association has partnered with RTÉ to create My Uni Life, a five-part docuseries which follows the lives of 7 students at various points of their academic career.…
UCD Ranked Ireland’s Top University For Second Year Running
UCD has been ranked as the best university in Ireland according to U.S News and World Report’s Best Global Universities Ranking list for the second consecutive year. UCD also ranked…
Government to Subsidise Fees for 14,000 New Higher Education Places
An initiative to provide over €30 million in free/subsidised places to higher education institutes under the ‘Jobs Stimulus Package’ has been announced by the Minister for Higher Education, Research, Innovation…
Graduate Entry Medicine Students Vote to Withhold Tuition Fees in Protest of Further Fee-Increases
Graduate Entry Medicine students have called on UCD to reduce tuition fees and are demanding a freeze on future increases. A majority of the current GEM class have elected to…