# universities - Saturday 18 May, 2013
Figures released by Ruairà Quinn show that 55 people under the remit of the Dept of Education earn over €200,000 a year.
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# universities - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Five students’ unions believe allowing the government to control pay rates will also mean controlled curricula.
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# universities - Wednesday 3 October, 2012
Neither made the Top 100 but who came out on top between TCD and UCD?
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# universities - Friday 24 August, 2012
‘Radical’ new proposals for interviews are really a return to the past, writes Joanna Tuffy TD. Instead, we need a much wider debate on third level education.
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# universities - Thursday 24 May, 2012
The Higher Education Authority says surging demands on the education system could mean fees could be doubled or more.
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# universities - Wednesday 23 May, 2012
The union’s members have voted in favour of maintaining the USI’s current position in campaigning for fully Exchequer-funded fees.
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# universities - Saturday 28 April, 2012
The Times Higher Education world reputation rankings failed to feature an Irish university – but the Education Minister indicated this is not a cause for concern.
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# universities - Thursday 5 April, 2012
A number of university heads have reportedly ignored requests to reduce their pay below €200,000.
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# universities - Thursday 15 March, 2012
Irish universities fell out of the top 100 institutions rankings today but, writes Stephen Donnelly TD, without a bold, ambitious vision from Government they’ll never get back into them.
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The latest Times Higher Education rankings, ranking colleges by reputation, do not include Irish institutions in their top 100.
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# universities - Monday 13 February, 2012
Plans published by the Higher Education Authority will ask small colleges to merge with bigger ones or face the financial chop.
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# universities - Monday 6 February, 2012
Fine Gael’s Alan Farrell said a monthly direct debit system would ease pressure on families.
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# universities - Tuesday 31 January, 2012
Institutes of Technology in Cork, Tralee and Limerick are joining the rush to win a new type of university status.
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# universities - Sunday 29 January, 2012
It’s hoped the contracts will help establish Ireland as a key location for the ‘green economy’.
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# universities - Monday 23 January, 2012
Institutes in Athlone, Dundalk, Galway-Mayo, Letterkenny and Sligo confirm their hopes to form a common university.
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# universities - Tuesday 22 November, 2011
The boom taught us the danger of ignoring inconvenient truths, writes Miles Link – so what are we doing with cuts to the universities?
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Seán Sherlock reckons Ireland’s performance in university rankings puts us 6th in the world, when countries are ranked by GDP.
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# universities - Wednesday 16 November, 2011
Neither side is helping in the debate around college fees – and young people are the losers, writes former student union official Ian Power.
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# universities - Tuesday 8 November, 2011
Ruairà Quinn is set to receive a report outlining the need for student numbers to be capped in order to avoid the return of fees.
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# universities - Saturday 15 October, 2011
Nick Griffin’s invite to a college debate has been withdrawn over safety fears. But should similar figures be invited in the first place?
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# universities - Friday 14 October, 2011
The Phil had invited the controversial MEP to participate in a debate next week, but withdrew the invite after student protests.
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# universities - Thursday 6 October, 2011
Department of Education says it still draws encouragement from the fact that two are in the top 200.
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# universities - Wednesday 21 September, 2011
Three top academics at Irish universities are each earning more than a quarter of a million euro a year.
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# universities - Monday 19 September, 2011
The Union of Students in Ireland has hailed the establishment of a central appeals board by minister Ruairà Quinn.
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# universities - Thursday 15 September, 2011
Griffin has been invited address students about immigration – but some are calling on the university to cancel the event.
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# universities - Wednesday 7 September, 2011
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# universities - Tuesday 6 September, 2011
Academics have said that Irish universities face a “speedy decline” if fees are not brought back. So what do you think?
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# universities - Monday 5 September, 2011
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# universities - Tuesday 5 July, 2011
Irish universities have fared very well in maths and engineering…
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# universities - Sunday 26 June, 2011
Records reveal that some staff at some universities earn in excess of €200,000.
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# universities - Thursday 24 March, 2011
Candidates for the Seanad’s University panels claim the voting register is badly out of date – wasting thousands in postage costs.
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# universities - Wednesday 16 February, 2011
Philip Nolan will become the president of NUI Maynooth in August, succeeding John Hughes who stepped down last year.
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# universities - Tuesday 11 January, 2011
The National Strategy for Higher Education advocates a combination of up-front fees and deferred payments.
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# universities - Wednesday 3 November, 2010
Up to 25,000 students expected to march in Dublin city centre in protest over planned increase in registration fees.
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