“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]
“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]
“The body of a man has been recovered from a river at the University of Ulster (UU) in Coleraine. He was taken from the water near Cromore Road, behind a building on the campus …” (more)
[Independent, 31 January]
“Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Education and Skills the actions that have resulted from the 2009 North West Gateway Strategic Alliance, NWGSA, scoping study prepared for Letterkenny Institute of Technology and the University of Ulster by a company (details supplied) in association with London Economics …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann, 11 January]
[The 2009 study is here]
“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 Derry academic has been appointed as a member of the Irish President’s Council of State. Professor Deirdre Heenan, who is Provost and Dean of Academic Development at Magee, is one of seven personal nominees of Michael D Higgins …” (more)
[BBC News, 9 January]
“The University of Ulster is to team up with a Chinese counterpart to promote the teaching of Mandarin in Northern Ireland schools. The initiative was one of three agreements the university has signed with academics in eastern China …” (more)
[Independent, 27 December]
“The University of Ulster has put a deposit down on the 30-acre Foyle College school site in Londonderry to progress its expansion plans in the city …” (more)
[Brendan McDaid, Belfast Telegraph, 8 December]
“A campaign has been set up to stop history courses being transferred from Magee Campus out of Londonderry. The University of Ulster is being urged to rethink …” (more)
[Brendan McDaid, Belfast Telegraph, 2 December]
“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]
“Students in Britain will pay tuition fees of £6,000 a year to attend the University of Ulster. The flat fee will come into effect in September for students from England, Scotland and Wales …” (more)
[Belfast Telegraph, 16 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]
“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]
“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]
“The drive for an expansion of student numbers at the Magee campus of the University of Ulster will continue, campaigners have declared, despite an Assembly vote rejecting plans to increase places. Expansion of student places at the Londonderry campus is central to plans for city regeneration …” (more)
[Brendan McDaid, Belfast Telegraph, 6 October]
“A leading academic at the University of Ulster’s Magee campus has accused the Department of Employment and Learning of lurching from crisis to crisis over student places. Professor Deirdre Heenan said the huge demand for places would mean students will lose out …” (more)
[BBC News, 2 October]
“The death has been announced of Professor Jim Allen, former Provost of the Magee campus and a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ulster …” (more)
[University of Ulster, 1 October]
“The expansion of the University of Ulster’s Magee campus must form part of the Executive’s Programme for Government, according to business and community leaders …” (more)
[Donna Deeney, Belfast Telegraph, 27 September]
