Tagged: Education
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Powering up our education system News
26.11.2007 “When I go into class, I have to power down.” Those were the words of a schoolchild at a digital education conference in San Francisco earlier this year.Categories: Government -
NI schools benefit from tech investment News
04.10.2007 Over 25,000 laptops are to be distributed to schools throughout Northern Ireland.Categories: R&DTags: Education, Northern Ireland, -
€30m AIB Seed Capital Fund to be located at NovaUCD News
11.07.2007 The recently announced €30m AIB Seed Capital Fund is to be located at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin (UCD).Categories: R&D -
European Institute of Technology promised News
10.07.2007 A proposal to set up a European Institute of Technology (EIT) has been backed by an EU Industry Committee but MEPs want the institute’s name to include ‘innovation’.Categories: Government, R&D -
Postgraduate study to attract more ICT workers News
06.07.2007 The Irish Computer Society (ICS) and Dublin City University have announced details of a new partnership that will enable experienced ICT professionals without formal third-level...Categories: R&D -
Students urged to choose sciences for CAO News
26.06.2007 Ahead of the Central Applications Office (CAO) change-of-mind deadline of 1 July, secondary school leavers are being asked to consider applying for third-level courses in...Categories: R&D -
DIT beats 155 universities to world tech final News
21.06.2007 In its first year entering the Imagine Cup Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), representing Ireland, has made it through to the last five, the only European country to do so.Categories: R&D -
ThirdForce’s US$18m acquisition gets go-ahead News
18.06.2007 At an EGM this morning ThirdForce shareholders voted unanaminously to back the Irish company’ decision to acquire US firm MindLeaders Corporation, opening up the world’s largest...Tags: Education -
Dell plans meanest green machine on earth News
07.06.2007 Michael Dell has revealed his ambition to build the “greenest PC on the planet”, encouraging customers to contribute their ideas for this environmentally friendly machine on...Categories: Business -
Irish IT firm wins Global eSchools contract News
07.06.2007 Irish IT company Globalnet has won a tender from the Global eSchools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI)to provide a complete IT service including a VoIP (voice over internet...Tags: Education -
ICT course developed for primary teachers News
06.06.2007 Educational software company Flúirse has developed a series of online summer courses aimed at improving the ICT skills of primary school teachers around Ireland.Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Irish third-level sector signs breakthrough deal News
30.05.2007 An organisation representing the 30 universities and institutes of education in Ireland has made history by signing the Education Alliance Agreement (EAA), the first of its kind...Tags: Education -
Irish Research Council adopts grad school approach News
28.05.2007 The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) and the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Studies (IRCHSS) announced their plans to... -
South Dublin Co Council connects with citizens News
23.05.2007 More than 100 community groups in South Dublin have signed up to use South Dublin Co Council’s (SDCC) online portal Connect.Tags: Education, E-government -
Schools lining up to fingerprint pupils News
23.05.2007 50 Irish schools have expressed an interest in biometric attendance management technology in the past month, a provider of biometric fingerprinting systems has told...Tags: Education, Biometrics -
€26m for third-level research projects News
15.05.2007 Fourteen third-level institutions have been awarded funding grants totalling €26m over three years under the Research Frontiers Programme.Categories: R&DTags: Education -
NUI Galway researchers head to the Valley News
14.05.2007 The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway will be contributing a significant part to the upcoming Semantic Technologies Conference in Silicon Valley, where...Tags: Education -
Ireland saves face thanks to mechatronic duo News
08.05.2007 Ireland will compete for the first time in the World Skills competition, a technology skills contest for young people to be held in Japan later this year.Categories: R&DTags: Education -
ITT Dublin awarded €218,000 by EI News
02.05.2007 A research project at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght (ITT Dublin) has been granted funding of €218,000 by Enterprise Ireland.Categories: R&D -
Expert warns against ‘token’ IT funding for schools News
14.03.2007 The head of an Irish education software company has branded the €252m government funding for ICT in schools as “tokenism”.Categories: R&DTags: Education