End Of The Line For Student Fee Compensation Movement
Conor Anderson, incoming University College Dublin (UCD) Students’ Union president, informed students that the university is not set to be compensating fees due to Covid-19 crisis. In a post to…
Trinity Provost Calls for Creation of Department of Higher Education
Calls for the introduction of a Department of Higher Education and Research grow as Dr Patrick Prendergast, Provost of Trinity College Dublin, signalled his support for its establishment in an…
Three Contest UCDSU Graduate Officer By-Election
Three postgraduate students are contesting the race for Graduate Officer at University College Dublin (UCD) Students’ Union (SU). Following the election of five executive officers in May, the position for…
“The Government Is Constraining Us Like Hell” | Patrick Paul Walsh on the Slow Death of the University
Conor Capplis – Editor The government’s decade-long underfunding of universities has presented the sector with a myriad of issues, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed unreliable non-exchequer sources of income.…
Success In Sight For NovaUCD’s Student Start-Ups
Last week, the 2020 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition was launched. The competition, which is being run digitally in light of Covid-19 restrictions, will see early-stage student start-ups go through an…
UCD Spent Almost €15 million On Off-Campus Residential Properties
University College Dublin (UCD) has spent €14.8 million on off-campus residential properties since the presidency of former UCD President Hugh Brady. The College Tribune can reveal that UCD has purchased…
REVEALED: Report Shows What UCD Will Look Like in Autumn – Very Different
Hybrid learning, no exams in the RDS, late September start, Saturday classes, specified student groups to share classes with, and not a lot of mixing; here’s what Autumn 2020 will…
Union of Students in Ireland Elects Second Term President For First Time In A Decade
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) today held its Congress involving the election of the 2020-2021 Executive Team. The Union’s incumbent President, Lorna Fitzpatrick, was re-elected for the first…
HEA Predicts Mass College Place Deferrals Next Year
Due to the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, most leaving cert students will defer college places this year, according to an unpublished report from the HEA. The report from…
Gemma O’Doherty Protested On My Beach And Got Upstaged By Some Local Fools
Since the country has shut down in light of this darn plague we’re experiencing, I’ve been working from home. Recently, I’ve spent most of my time as a student journalist…
Students Warned Not to Commit to Accommodation Until Clarity on Next Term
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) and national housing charity Threshold today warned students against committing to accommodation in the absence of clarity on what college attendance will look…
Government Denies Colleges of Additional Funds Despite Half a Billion Loss
The Department of Education has said they are not in a position to provide any additional funding to third level institutions despite a projected financial loss of €508 million in…