Independent UCD News
Last week, the Belfield campus saw the completion of the University College Dublin Students’ Union class rep elections, while Ireland moved to a 6-week level 5 lockdown. UCD reacted by…
At a conference held last Friday by the Irish Universities Association (IUA) Minister for Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, announced that agility and flexibility of colleges are…
Professor Colm Fitzgerald, an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at University College Dublin (UCD) has come up with a novel approach to delivering lectures online during…
The National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL), located in University College Dublin (UCD) will not be able to process Covid-19 swabs for the next two weekends due to “Unavoidable staff shortages.”…
Following the announcement of a nationwide Level 5 lockdown being put in place from midnight on Wednesday 21st of October, University College Dublin (UCD) has responded by strengthening its existing…
This week marked the beginning of a new trajectory for student societies, as Monday 12th of October saw the start of the first ‘Virtual Freshers Week’ in UCD. With societies…
Online elections for this year’s University College Dublin Students’ Union (UCDSU) Class Representatives took place on the 14th/15th of October. However, the voting was struck by reports of students struggling…
Taoiseach Micheál Martin has announced that from midnight on Wednesday the entire country will move to Level 5 of the COVID-19 restrictions for a six-week period. Level 5 is the…
Higher Education Institutions are set to be given an extra €185 million in 2021 through extra supports in Budget 2021, the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) and the National Development Plan…
The National Student Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Framework has been launched by Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris, in response to the growing concern surrounding student mental health and…
UCD will be provided with €8,273,620 of a €47 million euro fund for research contractors and research students whose work has been heavily impacted by Covid-19, Simon Harris has announced.…
The government budget for the coming year has been announced officially today including additional investment into third and higher-level education, bringing up total expenditure into education to €8.6 billion. A…