Tagged: Education & News
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Tech start-up of the week: Studyclix.ie News
19.05.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is Studyclix.ie, a website for Junior and Leaving Cert students to help them prepare for their exams by accessing information such as past exam... -
Colleges need to produce more big data graduates to fill future jobs, EMC says News
16.05.2013 Multinational IT firm EMC, which recently partnered with University College Cork (UCC) on two data-focused business courses, believes that more interdisciplinary big data... -
Wicklow students to head to Texas for F1 in Schools world championships News
01.05.2013 A team of innovative students from St David’s Secondary School in Greystones, Co Wicklow, has scooped the national title in this year’s F1 in Schools Technology Challenge for... -
Ireland tops the EU for third-level education attainment – Eurostat News
26.04.2013 Ireland has the highest proportion of young people who have successfully completed third-level education in the EU – that’s according to new figures from the statistical office... -
Interview with Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant (video) News
25.04.2013 In perfect timing for today’s Girls in ICT Day comes our interview with the founder of Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant. She started Black Girls Code in 2011 and it is now...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Internet, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Computers, Apps -
Interview with CoderDojo Diva Limerick’s Karen O’Connell (video) News
25.04.2013 Today is Girls in ICT Day and the perfect occasion to highlight an interview with Karen O’Connell, mother of three and a former Dell worker, who helps run CoderDojo Divas in...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Software, Education, Economy, Development, Design -
Career memes of the week: astronaut News
23.04.2013 What do a sloth, hamster and the TV programme The Big Bang Theory have in common? They all turn the spotlight on astronauts, the profession in this week’s career memes of the... -
Irish Govt provides scholarships to students from emerging markets News
22.04.2013 The Government of Ireland has launched a new international scholarship scheme aimed at attracting students from emerging and priority markets, including China, India, Brazil and...Categories: Upskilling, Social Media, R&D, Government, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Ireland’s digital literacy ‘needs fixing’, Lord David Puttnam says News
18.04.2013 Lord David Puttnam paid a visit to a Camara Education workshop in Chapelizod, Dublin, where he commended the work of the social enterprise in promoting digital literacy both in... -
Panasonic to donate 100,000 solar LED lamps to regions lacking electricity News
16.04.2013 Electronics giant Panasonic is planning to donate up to 100,000 of its solar LED lanterns to people without electricity in several countries in Africa and Asia by 2018, the... -
Tweak.com's Jerry Kennelly: Ireland needs to become a land of coders and scholars News
15.04.2013 The saints and scholars tag for Ireland is defunct – it now needs to be known as the land of ‘coders and scholars’, Kerry technology entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly told DojoCon,... -
Leaving Cert student builds study notes community for his peers News
10.04.2013 The Leaving Certificate looms ever closer for sixth-year students in Ireland, with oral examinations starting next week. But with the help of self-taught web developer and... -
Women will play a key role in meeting the STEM shortage in US (infographic) News
02.04.2013 In the US, it’s estimated that about 1m additional STEM graduates will be needed to fill jobs in science, technology, engineering and maths over the next 10 years, and these... -
Interview: Dyson senior design engineer Patrick Maloney (video) News
28.03.2013 Ahead of the 2013 James Dyson Award, one of the previous Irish winners Patrick Maloney now works at Dyson where he has worked on a number of core products including the DC44...Categories: R&D, Hardware, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Development, Design, Consumer Tech -
Irish e-learning portal wins major deal in China to teach potentially 30m people News
21.03.2013 Dublin-based e-learning portal Onwards Learning has secured an agreement with China’s Central Institute for Vocational and Technical Education (CIVTE) to develop and run an... -
PoetryBeo app makes Irish Leaving Cert poetry come alive News
19.03.2013 For Leaving Certificate students, the date of their final exams is looming, but modern-day sixth-years can rest assured that when it comes to the poetry section of Irish paper... -
Career memes of the week: digital marketing News
19.03.2013 Traditional marketing roles are fading away while digital marketing is taking over, thanks to more and more social media channels in which to promote products or services. -
Interview with James Dyson: ‘Children need a route for invention’ News
14.03.2013 The UK and Irish school curricula need to be revamped to be made modern and relevant and enthuse a love of invention, science and design if we are to field the engineers of the... -
Career memes of the week: web developers News
12.03.2013 The web would be a pretty dull and sparse place without web developers, so this time our career memes of the week turn the spotlight on those professionals who help give us a... -
DCU cites massive swing towards STEM subjects in CAO first preferences News
09.03.2013 DCU has reported a significant swing in the direction of STEM-based courses in terms of CAO first preference figures. The university said it attracted more than 4,000 first...