Simon Harris

A review of the student grant scheme for third-level students has been approved by the Cabinet, the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Researc(...)

The free nasal flu vaccine is being extended to teenagers after low take-up among the target group of younger children left the Health Service Executi(...)

A professor is to become only the second woman in more than four centuries appointed as president of an Irish university. Prof Maggie Cusack takes on(...)

European Commission officials have written to representatives of the tobacco industry to say it is up to member states, including Ireland, to investig(...)

Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman will on Tuesday bring a memo to Cabinet to extend paid parental leave from two weeks to five weeks. Mr O’Gorma(...)

On any given day, Mary Hernandez sees the financial struggles facing students at Letterkenny Institute of Technology (LYIT) up close. “Huge numbers h(...)

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(...)

A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said. Eoin Ó Broin insis(...)

Demand for mental health support in some universities has doubled as students struggle with isolation and the shift to online learning. Dr Patrick Pr(...)

Universities are due to run a combined deficit of more than €100 million this year due to a “devastating” drop-off in commercial income and vacant stu(...)