Groups have mixed views on new public pay agreement

ASTI head voices extreme disappointment over provisions for new entrants

Lecturer made a lasting contribution to Irish musical life

Donal Colum O’Cleirigh obituary: Born: November 21st, 1932 – Died: May 15th, 2017

Staff and students at former Church of Ireland college protest

After 200 years Rathmines college of education closure occurred with one day’s notice

Arts degrees: are they worth doing any more?

These days, all the focus seems to be on how science and technology are the ‘sexy’ subjects everyone should be doing, but employers say arts courses develop crucial skills for the modern workplace

Low rankings for Irish universities ‘a disaster and inevitable’

President of NUI Galway says a focus on research and teaching has paid off

Irish universities continue to fall in global rankings

Damaging effects of higher education cutbacks now obvious, say TCD and UCD heads

Students encouraged to abandon arts for Stem subjects

Anecdotal evidence says earning capacity of arts graduates increases after five years

Universities face funding cuts if they fail to promote more women

Key decision-making bodies in colleges must be gender balanced, HEA report says

Report shows use of zero-hour contracts by universities

Report finds up to two-thirds of third-level teachers not in full-time or permanent jobs

Gender quotas for senior posts to be introduced at NUI Galway

Move may have significant implications for other colleges and public sector employers

Women under-represented at senior level in higher education

Only 19 per cent of professors are women despite recent gender equality initiatives

UCC moves to prevent picket at college entrance in pay dispute

College seeks order against Siptu and IFUT extending picket over Tyndall pay dispute

Education policy seeks to diminish status and morale of researchers

Ireland’s research policy runs counter to EU proposals

Academics reluctant to take gender equality cases, union official says

Representative says university staff feel too isolated to take gender discrimination cases

Number of women filling top university posts ’unacceptably low’

Irish Federation of University Teachers says females given less than a fifth of professor grades

Workers picket Tyndall Institute over pay inequality

Unions say staff being paid less money to do same work as colleagues in UCC

Researchers at UCC’s National Tyndall Institute warn of possible industrial action over pay rates

Leading Tyndall researcher left in disagreement over pay and conditions

Continued cuts risk the future of our third-level sector

Policy decisions are taken without considering policy and planning. Irish universities have absorbed serious funding cuts and now face a crisis

University teachers to withdraw Croke Park `concessions’ if pay cuts are introduced

Government risk destroying `fabric of industrial relations’, union agm told

University lecturers vote to fight any pay cuts

Government risks “destroying the fabric of industrial relations”, AGM in Dublin was told

Public service pay cuts could reduce activity in economy by up to 0.5%, official figures show

Promissory note deal will have no impact on public finances this year

'No' vote on Croke Park would have wider implications - Howlin

Medical Laboratory Scientists Association votes against proposed agreement

IMO says industrial action possible over cuts

Union says it will not be bound by congress decision on proposed Croke Park agreement

Industrial action over Croke Park ‘a possibility’ - IMO

Union members told proposals are bad for public service workers and wider economy

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