Financial pressures and personal or family reasons cited as main factors by students
Higher Education Authority (HEA)
Rental costs a barrier for entry to higher education among young people leaving care
Employment rates highest for education courses and lowest for arts and humanities
Dundalk institute has 500 staff and 5,000 students and has been running deficits in recent years
Dr Hannagh McGinley is just the third Traveller to be awarded a PhD in the State’s history
Move will increase pay to €22,000 a year for doctoral researchers funded by Science Foundation Ireland and Irish Research Council
One in seven students are from overseas with US, China and India the most common countries of origin
Technological universities are not a ‘mistake’, they’re a milestone in 21st-century higher education
They provide a wide range of education and research opportunities to meet society’s needs
No degree? No problem. Growing numbers of companies are looking beyond third-level qualification as a recruitment requirement
Increasing recognition that graduates from arts/humanities are also employable in the tech sector for various reasons
Opinion: Our State’s higher education institutions need to be clearly differentiated by mission and purpose — not lumped together with similar goals
Widely-held belief that CAO points are determined by colleges in advance and remain relatively constant is incorrect
Rigorous methods for seeking approvals from governing body adopted in wake of university spending €4.7 million on reports into structure, communication and change management
University president acknowledges accounting error in which €7m in Government funding allocated to wrong financial year
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