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Online for a lesson in internet safety

Tuesday February 09 2010

INTERNET safety lessons are to be extended to primary school pupils as a new survey highlights the dangers for children of going online.

UL granted €17m for 'vanity projects'

Sunday February 07 2010

The cash-strapped University of Limerick (UL) has spent in excess of €1.1m for a mosaic and €16m on a pedestrian bridge over the Shannon.

Leaving Cert pupils drop maths to get 'soft' points

Wednesday February 03 2010

LEAVING Certificate students are picking 'soft' subjects at the expense of higher-level maths as a way of winning points for college entry.

Little sign of action as creeping fog of gloom descends on the Dail

Wednesday February 03 2010

'I don't know why we bother turning up at all," grumbled Fine Gael's Jim O'Keeffe in the Dail yesterday as one of his colleagues, Sean Barrett, tangled unsuccessfully with the Ceann Comhairle. It was a sentiment that seemed to unite both participants in the Dail and observers of the 'action' in the chamber yesterday.

Half of applicants to miss out on a place at college

Tuesday February 02 2010

ONLY half of this year's record number of third level applicants will get a college place next autumn, the Irish Independent has learned.

Fury at UL's €3m 'second residence' of president

Sunday January 31 2010

THE University of Limerick's controversial building of a new multi-million euro house for its president Don Barry went ahead despite the college already owning a second "president's house" in Killaloe, Co Clare, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

Cash-starved universities in crisis

Sunday January 31 2010

Last Thursday in Leinster House, the heads of the seven Irish universities were hauled before the Oireachtas Committee on Education.