“If you want to make a career in finance, Irish universities are not the place to do it, according to a new report. The latest QS Top Universities ranking for careers in accounting and finance shows no Irish university in the top 50, with Trinity the highest ranked at 55 …” (more)
[Peter Flanagan, Independent, 18 February]
“The University of Ulster has revealed that house prices in Northern Ireland have almost halved from peak levels. The report did not take rental properties into account. Two huge listed but derelict buildings near QUB were sold last week for less than a quarter of their original £1m asking price in 2007 …” (more)
[Belfast Studenty.me, 9 February]
“Northern Ireland’s first ever financial trading room is set to open at Queen’s University Belfast. The First Derivatives Trading Room, supported by Invest NI, will provide a dynamic learning environment for students hoping to embark in a career in financial services or technology …” (more)
[Queen's University Belfast Press Releases, 6 February]
“A new £6m research centre that aims to become a global leader in developing materials technology was officially opened by the UK business secretary, Vince Cable, during his first visit to the North yesterday …” (more)
[Francess McDonnell, Irish Times, 1 February]
“As part of a university voluntary severance and voluntary retirement scheme, 145 staff will leave their jobs before the spring semester begins. The departures are across all departments and are the result of a voluntary trawl …” (more)
[BBC News, 27 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]
“A former employee of Queen’s University Belfast has been arrested as part of an investigation into alleged threats to kill a former colleague. The 33-year-old man was detained in England on 30 December and taken to Northern Ireland the following day, according to a statement from the Police Service of Northern Ireland …” (more)
[David Matthews, Times Higher Education, 10 January]
“Let’s try to make sense of a situation that seems to be getting a wee bit out of hand, probably because our wonderfully creative Northern Irish Politicians are involved. General consensus from within Queen’s suggests that they really quite fancy having Stranmillis College under their control …” (more)
[Fergal McFerran, Belfast Studenty.me, 7 January]
“The education and learning minister has been accused of misleading MLAs over the proposed merger of Stranmillis college with Queen’s University …” (more)
[BBC News, 5 January]
“Queen’s University is set to be rocked by strikes over changes to the staff pension plan that have been described as ‘high-handed’ and could see members of staff losing £400,000 for their retirement …” (more)
[Ben Finch, The Gown, 29 November]
“Northern Ireland’s two main third-level colleges, Queen’s University, Belfast and the University of Ulster, are in uncharted waters waiting to see how the radical changes to the British fees structures will affect the intake of students …” (more)
[Gerry Moriarty, Irish Times, 29 November]
“Trinity College has teamed up with six of Ireland’s largest third level institutions in a cross-border initiative to establish a new Digital Arts and Humanities (DAH) structured PhD programme …” (more)
[Fionn O’Dea, University Times, 22 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]
“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]
“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]
“Eight activists from Free Education for Everyone in Queens University Belfast were elected to the Student Council in elections which were held yesterday. The establishment of FEE QUB along with FEE Derry over the last year has now made the Free Education for Everyone Campaign an island wide cause, fighting austerity cuts by two different governments …” (more)
[Free Education for Everyone, 19 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]
“Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Queen’s has been named as number one in the UK by Thomson Reuters. The information provider for professionals and businesses places the QUB department at number 23 in the world, ahead of Oxford and Cambridge …” (more)
[Emma Gallen, The Gown, 17 October]
“A group of protestors who disrupted a lecture at Queen’s have been described by a disciplinary report as ‘probably Catholic’. The report details the investigation into the protest and was used at the disciplinary hearings of three protestors. It was received from a whistleblower who had concerns about the disciplinary process …” (more)
[Ben Finch, The Gown, 17 October]
“Belfast’s School of Dentistry at Queen’s University has come under severe criticism from the UK body which regulates dental professionals. The General Dental Council (GDC) said a lack of communication between senior managers is damaging the education of dental students …” (more)
[Marie-Louise Connolly, BBC News, 11 October]
