Tagged: Education & News
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Concern over school internet safety guidelines News
30.06.2006 Parents will have to give permission for their children to use the internet in schools under draft guidelines for internet safety in the classroom drawn up by the Department of...Tags: Education -
ICT programme to place 100 graduates in high-tech jobs News
30.06.2006 One hundred technology graduates will have the chance to fast-track their careers with the launch of this year's ICT Ireland Graduate Placement Programme.Categories: BusinessTags: Education -
Ireland matches EU for PhDs but lags in R&D spend News
27.06.2006 According to a new Central Statistics Office (CSO) report — Measuring Ireland’s Progress, 2005 — the proportion of mathematics, science and technology PhDs awarded here matched...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Science and tech graduates get top earnings News
26.06.2006 Science and technology graduates are among the best paid graduates in the country, according to a new report by Forfás, the national board responsible for providing policy...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
UL to head search for senior Google appointment News
14.06.2006 The University of Limerick (UL) has been chosen to lead the search for a new project manager who will lead the move by Google to internationalise all of its products globally.Categories: R&DTags: Education -
IT Tralee to launch “flagship” e-learning course News
26.05.2006 Institute of Technology (IT) Tralee is to launch a new Masters in Educational Technologies programme beginning in September 2006. The faculty is aiming to use cutting-edge...Categories: R&DTags: E-learning, Education -
Institutes sign €20m IT outsourcing deal with HP News
25.05.2006 An Cheim has signed a seven-year shared service technology deal with HP worth €20m. The organisation, which provides IT systems to 13 Institutes of Education and the Tipperary...Tags: Education -
College delivers lectures by video podcast News
05.05.2006 IT Sligo has become one of the first third-level institutions in the country to deploy video podcasts of lectures to online engineering students, allowing them to view their...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Industry in tech careers push News
10.03.2006 Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin TD joined with IBEC body ICT Ireland and IT Association Galway to launch a guide to careers in the technology sector aimed at...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Technology a good career move, DSE tells students News
30.01.2006 As the deadline for the first round of CAO applications looms, the director of the Discover Science and Engineering (DSE) Programme has talked up the demand for IT jobs in the...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Teachers to get training on web security News
09.11.2005 Teachers throughout the country are to receive internet and IT security training throughout November and early December through specially organised workshops organised by the...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Institutes make case for technology centres News
20.10.2005 Tim Creedon, research head of the institutes of technology, has said a network of technology research centres within the institutes is essential to unlock research resources for...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
CRC opens e-school News
19.10.2005 A new high-tech wing at the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) School in Clontarf, Dublin, which will enhance the learning environment of students with disabilities, was officially...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
UL spin-off raises €1m News
18.10.2005 A technology spin-off from University of Limerick (UL) has secured €1m in venture capital (VC) funding to pioneer the development of cancer diagnostic equipment, based on...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Cape Clear powers up online education giant News
14.10.2005 A software company established by Iona co-founder Annrai O’Toole has deployed key technologies aimed at boosting the performance of Pearson Education’s online assets. Pearson is...Categories: CIOTags: Education -
The Friday Interview: Vincent Wade, Trinity College Dublin News
30.09.2005 With fingers in a number of pies, Vincent Wade ( pictured ) very much personifies the multifaceted modern academic. A full-time senior lecturer in computer science at Trinity...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Young researchers share €4m News
20.09.2005 Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is to invest more than €4m in five leading young ICT and biotechnology researchers under its President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (PIYRA)...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Institutes get PhD awarding powers News
20.09.2005 The Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) has passed over the findings of last year's OECD high-profile educational review of Ireland by giving three institutes...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Ireland still lagging at PhD level News
14.09.2005 Despite a dramatic rise in investment in science and technology at third level, Ireland still compares badly with many other developed countries in the production of senior...Categories:Tags: Education -
IT in schools policy urgently needed - IBEC News
31.08.2005 Every secondary-school student in the country should have a laptop within five years, IBEC has urged.Categories: R&DTags: Education