What Happened in UCD This Week? 25th – 30th October!
It’s ‘Reading Week’ – but, unlike students with looming deadlines, news never sleeps. Here’s a roundup of the best stories you might have missed this week. Medicine Students to Withhold…
RTÉ Announce Docuseries Showing Disadvantaged University Students
The Irish Universities Association has partnered with RTÉ to create My Uni Life, a five-part docuseries which follows the lives of 7 students at various points of their academic career.…
UCD Ranked Ireland’s Top University For Second Year Running
UCD has been ranked as the best university in Ireland according to U.S News and World Report’s Best Global Universities Ranking list for the second consecutive year. UCD also ranked…
Government to Subsidise Fees for 14,000 New Higher Education Places
An initiative to provide over €30 million in free/subsidised places to higher education institutes under the ‘Jobs Stimulus Package’ has been announced by the Minister for Higher Education, Research, Innovation…
Graduate Entry Medicine Students Vote to Withhold Tuition Fees in Protest of Further Fee-Increases
Graduate Entry Medicine students have called on UCD to reduce tuition fees and are demanding a freeze on future increases. A majority of the current GEM class have elected to…
What Happened Last Week in UCD? Newsround 19th – 25th October 2020
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…
Minister Simon Harris calls for more accountability requirements for universities.
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…
UCD Professor Takes Maths Lectures into the Wicklow Mountains
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…
‘Staff Shortages’ in UCD COVID Test Centre Leads to Weekend Closures.
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.”…
Breaking: UCD Announce Stronger COVID Guidelines for Nationwide Lockdown.
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…
Virtual Freshers Week 2020 -An Attempt To Vivify Student Life Or a Disappointing Failure?
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…
UCDSU Class Rep Elections See 63% of Positions Uncontested
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…