TCD assessments, authors to look out for, Famelab and 30 seconds of fame

Hundreds of students at Trinity College Dublin say its new system of Christmas exams and continual assessment is putting students under huge pressure and resulting to a steep decline in participation in societies. Carl O'Brien reports.

Have your say: Is continual assessment and semesterisation putting too much pressure on students? Do you have less time to take part in clubs and socieities? Or is continual assessment the fairest way to assesst students? Do you find it reduces the pressure facing you in the summer exam? Let us know what you think.

When you get polite but woolly feedback about your job application or curriculum vitae (CV), how do you interpret what this really means as well as then try to recover the situation? James Reed reports.

An administrative oversight led to Trinity College Dublin undercharging students € 1.7 million in university fees, which the college is now looking to recover. Jack Power reports.

The debut books and authors to look out for in 2019: We asked some writers to tell us about their debuts ahead of their publication. Deirdre Falvey reports.

Famelab and 180 seconds of fame - Three minutes to explain a science concept to a jury and an audience – no slides allowed. Margaret Ward reports.

Meat consumption in western countries such as Ireland may need to drop by 90 per cent to avert a climate catastrophe and reverse the current obesity epidemic, a new study has warned. Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports.

Ní mé an té is líofa ar na meáin shóisialta. Go deimhin is cuma nó meánshóisialtafóibiach mé. Níl aon chuntas Twitter agam mar ní cheapaim gur twit ar fad mé; agus níl mo ghnúis ar Facebook ná ar Straoisleabhar ná ar Phusphróifíl ná ar Chuntanóschuntas ná ar Aghaidhamaidí ná ar Ghnaoighréasán ar bith díobh, a scríobhann Alan Titley.

Claudia Weber is a seasoned commuter, and she loves to knit. Over the past year, as her train journey from a town in the Bavarian countryside to Munich was replaced with a bus service during engineering works, stretched to two hours or more, from a scheduled 40 minutes, she had a novel way of working out her frustrations.