Why would girls study Stem if they have no career path afterwards?

Despite decades of concern about attracting girls into science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem), there is still no clear career path to encourage them to do so.

Huawei Ireland has opened its €250,000 scholarship fund for third-level students studying science, technology, engineering and maths at Irish universities.

Dutch ecology professor Matthijs Schouten has a unique understanding of Irish bogs and the transformational changes in how they have come to be viewed, understood and used in the past few decades.

Universities will be required to ring-fence more places for students outside the CAO points race under new Government policy proposals. The proposals form part of a wider plan to create a more “unified” third level system with stronger links between further education and higher education.

Are you living at home with your parents? Is your mental health declining or improving as you leave adolescence behind? How much screentime do you spend on work/study/entertainment? How common is it to experience discrimination in your daily life? Thousands of 25-year-olds will be asked about their lives as part of a major study aimed at capturing a snapshot of the lives, aspirations and challenges facing Generation Z.

“I bloody love fashion,” exclaims Erica Flannery, one of this year’s 25 fashion graduates from Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD), whose collection, Like A Rhizome Cowboy (rhizomes being a tangled web of knotted stems), explores how fashion can challenge the contemporary culture of surveillance.

Ní hí an cheist atá ag éamh amach orainn ar an nuacht is mó a mheánn i gcónaí ach na scéalta nach n-insítear. Ós rud é nach bhfuil oiread sin measa againn mar phobal ar ár bhfórsaí cosanta is fíorbheag de nuacht a scaiptear ina dtaobh ar na mórmheáin.

I‘m sure Jake Daniels, the teenage footballer for Blackpool who came out as gay last week, didn’t envisage his career as being one of an accidental activist. I would imagine he just wanted to play. But activism, so often, comes to people, rather than them gravitating towards it.