Higher Education Authority
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College Choice: Support available to level the playing field
- Education
- January 12, 2021, 05:00
The Leaving Certificate is often held up as the fairest way of deciding who goes to college. After all, doesn’t every student sit the same exam, all m(...)

Covid-19 has accelerated demands for a greater skilled workforce. Are you ready?
- Education
- December 15, 2020, 00:00
Now, more than ever, learning new skills is an essential part of the workplace – but do you really want to commit to a full- or part-time course? Sim(...)

How can the class gap in higher education be bridged?
- Education
- December 7, 2020, 00:01
On any given day, Mary Hernandez sees the financial struggles facing students at Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) up close. “Huge numbers h(...)

Class gap: More affluent students dominate high-points courses
- Education
- December 7, 2020, 00:00
The class gap in higher education is revealed in new figures that show affluent students dominate high-points courses such as medicine, finance and en(...)

Colleges must report annual bullying and sexual harassment figures
- Education
- November 26, 2020, 06:47
All third level colleges are to be required to measure cases of sexual harassment and bullying of staff and students as part of new “zero tolerance” i(...)

University governing bodies to be slimmed down under new reforms
- Education
- November 20, 2020, 21:13
University governing bodies will be smaller and feature more external members under new legislation to be published next year, Minister for Higher Edu(...)

Education sector to offer thousands of free courses to workers affected by pandemic
- Education
- October 26, 2020, 00:01
More than 14,000 free and subsidised higher-education courses in areas ranging from data analytics to construction are to be provided to upskill worke(...)

Universities face stronger governance and accountability requirements
- Education
- October 23, 2020, 18:26
Stronger governance and accountability measures for third-level institutions will be contained in new legislation to be published next year, Minister (...)

I plan to sit the Leaving Cert in November alongside college. Am I taking on too much?
- Education
- October 6, 2020, 00:00
I started my fourth-choice college course this week, but it’s not what I want to do. I want to try my hand at three subjects in the November Leaving C(...)

Up to 450 CAO offers will be sent to upgraded Leaving Cert students on Thursday
- Education
- October 5, 2020, 13:10
Up to 450 new CAO offers will be issued on Thursday to students whose Leaving Cert results were upgraded following errors in the calculated grades pro(...)