Third Level Education News Today

So what is it about the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that it casts a spell of illness on those summoned to appear before it? The most recent example is that ...

Recent research suggests the number of third level graduates has outpaced the creation of high-end employment in the Irish labour market

All 10 courses announced today are accredited courses.

Minister Simon Harris said it’s his ‘understanding’ that the issue ‘relates to a very small number of managerial posts in our technological universities’.

Additional and future funding was also announced for students on grant schemes.

The Clare Leader Forum has lambasted the Department of Social Protection for its depiction of disabled people in the Green Paper on Disability Reform. Public consultation is currently open for the Green Paper which is centred on the “the restructuring of long-term disability payments” including disability allowance, invalidity pension, blind pension, incapacity benefit and domiciliary […]

Leaving Certificate students are to receive their results this Friday.

A Clare disability activist is calling on leaders in disability community to speak up about challenges facing them. It comes as Inclusion Ireland’s recent budget submission calls for housing challenges for people with intellectual disabilities to be addressed. In a survey completed by the organisation, 72% of people with intellectual disabilities said that they were […]

Beat 102 103s latest series "The Road to Who Knows Where" explores the alternative routes to pursuing your career. 

A Clare disability activist claims a culture of “charity” towards people with disabilities is resulting in workplace discrimination against the community. A recent report by the European Disability Forum has found that Ireland, along with Greece, has the joint-lowest rate of employment in Europe for people with disabilities, with just 32.6% in employment compared to […]