“Fewer young people from Northern Ireland have applied to go to university in September 2012. Figures from UCAS, the body through which people apply to universities, showed there were 4.4% fewer applications from NI young people …” (more)
[BBC News, 30 January]
“Interviewees in Boston College’s Belfast Project oral history undertaking understood that divulging their participation could potentially compromise the underlying premise that such testimony would remain undisclosed until the time of their demise …” (more)
[Thomas E Hachey and Robert K O'Neill, Irish Times, 19 January]
“Colleges and universities should return to the control of the Department of Education, according to unions. They are currently run by the Department for Employment and Learning which is due to be scrapped …” (more)
[BBC News, 12 January]
“Sir, – I note Gerry Adams trotting out the usual Sinn Féin hypocrisy while trying to justify the austerity policies of his colleagues in the Northern Assembly (November 22nd) …” (more)
[James Moran, Irish Times, 8 December]
“An extra 700 undergraduate places will be made available in Northern Ireland by 2015, Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry has announced …” (more)
[BBC News, 7 December]
“More than £2m of taxpayers money was wasted setting up a failed Bioscience and Technology Institute, the public spending watchdog has revealed …” (more)
[BBC News, 29 November]
“A chara, – Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore speaking in the Dáil last Wednesday was entirely disingenuous in seeking to cloud the issue of his party’s betrayal of election pledges by referring to student fees in the North …” (more)
[Gerry Adams, Irish Times, 22 November]
“Teaching staff in further education colleges in Northern Ireland have voted to go on a one-day strike. Lecturers at Stranmillis and St Mary’s colleges also voted in favour …” (more)
[BBC News, 21 November]
“The QUB Senate today (28/10/2011) announced an initiative to encourage students coming from GB. The university will offer grants to those with high grades in specific subjects. Basil McCrea said: ‘Although this is a step in the right direction, I am disappointed that more could not be done to encourage students from the rest of the United Kingdom to study in Northern Ireland’ …” (more)
[Basil McCrea MLA, 28 October]
“Queen’s University has announced it will charge students from England, Scotland and Wales fees of £9,000 a year. Fees for Northern Ireland students have already been frozen at £3,465 …” (more)
[Patrice Dougan, Belfast Telegraph, 29 October]
“Students from Great Britain who want to study at Queen’s University will be charged up to £9,000 per year. It is the highest fee a university can charge for students from outside Northern Ireland …” (more)
[BBC News, 28 October]
“Northern Irish students hoping to enter the University of Ulster next year could face tougher entry requirements than applicants from the rest of the UK, it has emerged. Richard Barnett, Ulster’s vice-chancellor, raised the prospect of different entry grades as the two sets of students are no longer competing over the same funding …” (more)
[David Matthews, Times Higher Education, 27 October]
“Jim Allister’s been giving out that there aren’t enough Protestants going to universities here. Or rather, that there are more Catholics going than Protestants …” (more)
[Nuala McKeever, Belfast Telegraph, 24 October]
“An Ulster Unionist MLA will attempt to block plans to charge higher tuition fees to students from the rest of the UK coming to Northern Ireland. Basil McCrea said the plan is neither fair nor equitable. But he is likely to see objections quashed …” (more)
[Noel McAdam, Belfast Telegraph, 24 October]
“A UUP MLA has said he will make an Assembly bid to stop universities charging higher fees to students from England, Scotland and Wales. Fees for students from Northern Ireland are to be frozen at £3,500 but students from elsewhere in the UK will be charged up to £9,000 from next year …” (more)
[BBC News, 23 October]
“Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister has accused the University of Ulster of a ‘lamentable failure’ in recruiting more Protestants …” (more)
[Irish Times, 20 October]
“A unionist MLA has described as ‘alarming’ new figures which show that just a third of students attending Northern Ireland’s universities are Protestant. Jim Allister was responding to new figures from the North’s Department of Employment and Learning which showed there are considerably more Catholic students at the two main universities …” (more)
[Anthony Neeson, Irish Echo, 19 October]
“Just a third of the 35,000 students attending university in Northern Ireland are Protestant, according to new figures. That means around two-thirds of people at Northern Ireland’s universities are from a Catholic background …” (more)
[BBC News, 17 October]
“Students from Northern Ireland who go to Scotland for their degree face an average annual fee of just under £7,000 a year …” (more)
[Katrine Bussey, Belfast Telegraph, 4 October]
“A student from England is threatening to take the Northern Ireland Executive to court over its stance on tuition fees …” (more)
[Amanda Poole, Belfast Telegraph, 3 October]
