Thomas Grund: In Getting Students Back On Campus, Money Is All UCD Cares About | Op-Ed
It took months into the pandemic for University College Dublin (UCD) to realise that teaching in the autumn cannot go
It’s not easy being green | Conall Mac Dhonnagáin – PRO for UCD Young Greens
It’s no secret that I am in favour of new leadership in the Green Party. I made that clear in my last piece; “Ryan Is Not The Green Messiah, He’s A Very Naughty Boy”. So let’s be clear from the top – I am biased. However, the following is not intended as an attack on the new Minister for Climate Action.
No Messing Around This Time: UCD’s New Students’ Union President
The next President of University College Dublin’s (UCD) Students’ Union (SU) will be a familiar face to some. As this
That’s a wrap
As I sit here tearfully jotting down my final reflections as a post graduate student, I look back fondly at what’s changed since we started together back in February.
Well firstly, we were teased with a mere three scant weeks in the Innovation Academy in UCD, with the abundance of campus resources only a few steps away only to be sent abruptly home…and I had only just managed to navigate my way to the O’Brien Centre from the N11 car park with absolute confidence. We won’t mention the fifty quid I had just forked out for said parking space. The benefits were short lived.
UCD Results Leaked Before Official Release Date
In the past hour it has transpired that academic results for the Spring trimester of the academic year 2019/20 have
UCD Research: Failure to Address Poverty is Costing The State €4.5bn a Year
Poverty costs Ireland around €4.5bn a year according to ‘The Hidden Cost of Poverty’, a recent report, commissioned by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.
USI Expresses Disappointment at Lack of Plans to Reduce College Fees in Programme for Government
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has expressed disappointment at the lack of detail on how key aspects affecting students in the Programme for Government set out by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party will be achieved, especially surrounding the fact that there are no plans to reduce Irish college and university fees, which they say are currently the highest in the European Union.
UCD Clubhouse “Unlikely” to Reopen on 29th of June, says Manager
The UCD Clubhouse is “unlikely” to reopen on the 29th of June according to the establishment’s Manager. All pubs will be allowed to reopen from the 20th of July, although some pubs will be reopening from the end of June.
Rugby returns to UCD as Leinster to begin training again
Leinster rugby will begin training at their High-Performance Centre (HPC) on University College Dublin’s (UCD’s) Bellfield campus on Monday, after players had undergone testing earlier this week. As part of the return to play protocols set out by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the HPC at UCD has been outfitted with the required infrastructure to facilitate a safe return to training, for restricted training sessions.
Leinster and Munster will begin training again at their respective HPCs on Monday 22 June, with Connacht and Ulster returning to training a week later on Monday 29 June. The National Men’s and Women’s Sevens squads are due back in training from Monday 6 July.
THEA ‘Strongly Encourage’ Students to Start And Continue Their Studies For The Coming Year.
The Technological Higher Education Association released a statement on June 16, urging students to begin and continue studies for the
UCD Smurfit MSc in Finance Ranked 41st Best in The World by Financial Times
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School’s Masters in Finance ranked 41st across the world and 35th in Europe in the Masters in Finance Pre-Experience 2020 category. This was part of the Financial Times’ annual ranking reports published on the 14th of June 2020.
UCD National Virus Reference Laboratory to Conduct a Study on Coronavirus Antibodies
A study aimed at determining how many people have contracted Covid-19 in Ireland will be conducted by Dr. Cillian De Gascun, director of the National Virus Reference Laboratory in UCD. 5000 people will be asked to participate from Sligo and Dublin, the areas with the lowest and highest levels of Covid-19 transmission respectively.