Get yer hair cut hippy, etc.
Tag Archives: Students
This morning.
Students registering to vote at Dublin Institute of Technology on Aungier Street, Dublin 2.
Kevin Donoghue tweetz:
“10 minutes and it’s bopping. #MakeASmartVote get down to DIT Students’ Union now.”
Democracy.
Mmf.
Yesterday: Home To Vote (Part 2)
UPDATE:
During lunchtime at DIT Bolton Street, Dublin 1…
Via USI
Oh.
Bob Coggins writes:
Already in its 4th year, and having received feedback from over 1,200 third level students nationwide in this year’s survey, our results continue to be the most comprehensive and accurate survey of third level students….
Above is a preview of this year’s results showing that 49.96% (50%) of students have considered dropping out of third level college or have actually dropped out.
41.7% considered dropping out, 8.24% dropped out The top three reasons for their consideration include mental health (24%), the course wasn’t what they were expecting (23.3%) and financial reasons (18.5%)….
At Trinity College Dublin.
A fleece-clad geography lecturer revolts.
Bob Kavanagh writes:
College Board member and senior academic Peter Coxon in Trinity urges students to take action against the College for what he calls “incredible erosion of our ability to teach whole sections of a geography degree without the discipline being given any indication of future staffing”. Issue in Geography Dept mirrors issues across college, with modules and staff being cut everywhere…
Powerful sediment.
Sentiment.
Finally.
Formerly unemployed mapper Omar Sarhan writes:
You may have noticed a lack of maps, that’s because I am now gainfully employed! So no staying up to till all hours mapping kebabs and the like.
I covered a topic on my blog about students in Dublin 2004-2014 before and followed up by creating a map and a few charts and graphs that some may find interesting. I’ll let the map (above) speak for itself and you can explore more on the topic via my blog post here.
If anyone is curious I am working with global spatial geo-datasets and logistics software in London, for a small firm called Map Mechanics. It’s pretty cool to work in a country where real business gets done and ….. (I better stop there before I offend :P ). I’ll hopefully create more maps over the next few weeks…
A sit in at the NCAD college boardroom this week (top)
As academics in Ireland and those working abroad, we write to express our solidarity with the students currently taking action at the National College of Art and Design [Dublin. We are concerned by the continued corporatisation that has consumed higher education in recent years. This has led to shortsighted management decisions based on little more than a drive to ‘balance the books’.
We urgently need another model of what higher education might be – one guided by the pursuit of learning rather than the pursuit of profit, driven by radical enquiry rather than bogus metrics, and committed to creating a space in which everyone who teaches, works and learns is afforded the entitlement and responsibility of equality. The students who are now taking action at NCAD, like those elsewhere in Europe right now, are committed to exploring the possibility of that other model. We give them our support at this time.Mairead Enright, University of Kent
Eoin O’Mahony, St. Patrick’s College / DCU
Dr Patrick Bresnihan, Maynooth University
Zoë Lawlor, University of Limerick
Dr Jones Irwin, St Patrick’s College / DCU
Dr Sinead Kennedy, Maynooth University
Dr James Carr, University of Limerick
Dr Kylie Jarrett, Maynooth University
Dr Audrey Bryan, St Patrick’s College / DCU
Bryan Wall, University College Cork
Aggelos Panayiotopoulos, University of Limerick
Dr Charles Travis, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Henry Silke, DCU
Dr Rory Hearne, Maynooth University
Dr Gavan Titley, Maynooth University
Rory Rowan, University of Zurich
Illan Wall, University of Warwick
Aileen O’Carroll, Maynooth University.
FIGHT!
Previously: Occupy NCAD
Stop that.
At the Union Student of Ireland National Congress at the Sheraton Athlone Hotel last night.
Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan (centre) with USI members from Cork IT (from left) Ciara O’Connor, Kelvin Moynihan, Shane Falvey, Matthew Donovan, Peter Glavin and Rachel Kiely.
Ms O’Sullivan took part in a “challenging but good natured discussion” with delegates that focused on the prospects for reform of the SUSI grant system, the development of Technological Universities and underinvestment in the higher education system.
Fight!
Pic: Conor McCabe
Oh.
Further to a huge intake of new students at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin (top this morning).
The deadline has just passed.
More as we get it.
Art Students Are Revolting (Rashers Tierney, Rabble.ie)
Thanks John Gallen
Stop that.
The launch of the Student Slingshot event this afternoon in Dublin Castle.
Student Slingshot will enable Students to meet industry leaders to discuss “entrepreneurial actions” for our future and is organised by students from colleges all over Ireland plus support from Enterprise Ireland, Jameson & SAP.
Student Slingshot say:
On November 18 we’re bringing 150 of the leading thinkers and doers together to meet the some the most influential entrepreneurs from Ireland and Europe. Students from the arts, medicine, engineering, law, architecture,business and the sciences will meet business leaders and academics committed to innovation and entrepreneurship all in heart of Dublin in Saint George’s Hall [Dublin Castle]…
FIGHT!
Above, from left: Patrick Guiney (UCD) (far back), Ellen Metzger UCD, Katie Mannion (DCU), Sam Pearson (DCU), Lara Connaughton (centre) (TCD) and Andrew Creagh (TCD).
Pic: Conor McCabe
Well fame costs.
And here’s where you start gurning.
The first 33 students and Stanley Tucci on the first day of the third year of The Programme For Screen acting at The Factory, Bow Street, Dublin this morning.
Sez they:
“Like the Actors Studio in New York, the Programme entry is audition based with a view to creating the strongest group of actors possible…”
Perishing elastic faced tyke thesps.
*kicks off leg warmers*