Pop-up Vaccination Centres at Third-level Colleges
11 pop-up vaccination centres will be established across colleges this week.
Covid-19
Teachers’ Union of Ireland Address Safe Return to Campuses
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI), which represents 4,500 academic staff in Institutes of Technology and Technological Universities, has highlighted its serious concern at the failure of some institutions to engage…
€105m Funding for Safe Campus Return
€105 million has been approved for the third-level sector for a safe campus return in September 2021. The package will include financial support for further and higher education to return…
Pilot Rapid Testing Project on Four College Campuses
Staff and students can volunteer to be part of rapid testing and other testing surveillance systems on college campuses as part of UniCoV.
Third-Level Education Reopening Plan
The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris has published the third-level education reopening plan, which foresees a safe return to on-site activities for further…
University of Limerick Commended
University of Limerick (UL) has been commended for its resilience and dynamism in responding to Covid-19. UL has successfully completed a review as part of quality checks conducted by Quality…
Colleges Remain Open During Level 5 Restrictions
After the announcement last night that the government has decided that as of midnight on Wednesday night 21 October all of Ireland will be placed on Level 5 of the…
Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Education
Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Education: Coronavirus learning losses may have a dramatic impact not only on the success of individual students, but on the performance of the education…
Third Level Colleges Moved to Level 3
Following the government’s announcement on Friday afternoon that all universities and Institutes of Technology be placed at Level 3 of the Covid-19 alert framework for up to three weeks, concerns…
IUA Announce All Universities to Introduce Enhanced Measures in Response to Increased Covid-19 Incidence
The Irish Universities Association (IUA) have announced that due to rising Covid-19 numbers across the country, at the request of government, all Higher Education Institutes will now move to the…
