Graham Love

Cork Institute of Technology in line of fire over party

CIT may face penalties over €13,000 retirement function which featured ice sculpture

Poorer students twice as likely to drop out of college in year one

Concern over males failing to progress studying computers and construction

More third level spending needed to attract top academics

Lack of education funding sees Irish universities fall in global rankings, conference told

Work of geologist, psychologist recognised by Royal Irish Academy

Prof Malcolm MacLachlan and Prof John J. Walsh praised for ‘world-renowned contributions’

Surge in numbers of young people taking apprenticeships

Almost 13,000 young people opted for ‘earn and learn’ options last year

Reviews finds weaknesses in safeguards over sale of college spinout firms

Report prompted by concerns over potential conflicts of interest among staff over commercialisation of research

Employment rates for graduates return to boom-time levels

ICT graduates earn most while those who hold arts degrees have lowest incomes

UL lifts suspension of whistleblowers whose claims sparked inquiry

University president accepts ‘serious mistakes in past’ and apologises for hurt caused

Number at third level with disabilities triples over a decade

Support funding per student drops by almost two-thirds to €1,025 between 2007 and 2015

Is doing a PhD a waste of time?

There are almost 9,000 PhD students in Irish third-level institutions

Irish parents blamed for high rate of overqualified workers

Education chief says parents are ‘obsessed’ with sending their children to third-level

Too few women at top levels in colleges, report shows

Only 21% of professors are women, with no female university head in 400 years

Universities resisted declaring tens of millions in assets

Audits also reveal extra payments to staff and non-compliance with procurement rules

More than 6,000 students drop out of college in first year

Highest drop-out rates in construction, computer science and engineering courses

Sale of ‘spinout’ company raises concerns over confict of interest

WIT president says his involvement with software firm FeedHenry was fully declared

Brexit could lead to increase in CAO points for Irish students

Higher international fees may lead to thousands of students staying at home

New HEA chief tells of ‘opportunities’ for colleges

Dr Graham Love says Ireland’s higher-education sector faces series of challenges

Alcohol and other drugs kill two people a day in Ireland

Fatalities up 62% over 10 years, with half of those who died aged 39 or younger

Young people have highest rate of psychiatric admissions

Report shows depression is the main reason for treatment in all age groups

Three people die from alcohol a day in Ireland, report shows

Irish drinkers consume 445 pints a year as State ranks fourth in OECD for consumption

Tissue storage could help to identify risks of pre-eclampsia

The Infant Biobank freezer facility contains more than 1.5 million tissue samples from pregnant women and their babies

Lady in bread: why Rosanna Davison has the pastry police up in arms

It's all the fault of gluten, says former Miss World Rosanna Davison, as she sets out to put our diets to right

Fluoride review finds no definitive evidence of negative effects

Most studies examined not suitable to prove or disprove link to health effects, research finds

‘Medicinal mushrooms’ among 36 projects to win €13.5m funding

Miniser for Health Leo Varadkar announces winners of funding from Health Research Board

Making use of surplus or donated tissue in fight against diseases

Biobanking makes donated human tissue accessible for research, so why isn’t more of it being done?

Dangerous drinking charted like never before underlines failures of alcohol policy

177,000 dependent drinkers in Ireland

Widespread harmful consumption of alcohol revealed in Health Research Board report

Increase in cases reflects growth in ‘chronic alcohol problems’

New report reveals 40,000 cases treated between 2008 and 2012

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