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Taoiseach Enda Kenny today attended the official opening of the new UCD Centre for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery. Speaking at the launch, the Taoiseach said...

Education Minister Ruairí Quinn today announced that a new further education and training authority called SOLAS (Seirbhísí Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna) is to be established. Speaking at the launch the Minister said...

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today launched a call for proposals to assist researchers in future career opportunities ahead of the Euroscience Open Forum 2012, which takes place in Dublin next July...

I am delighted to be here at this important conference on China’s economy and its global impacts. I commend the Confucius Institute at UCD and the Chinese Economic Association for their decision to host the...

The Department of Education and Skills has announced details of the further and higher education Student Grant Scheme for the 2011/12 academic year.Up until now, there were four grant schemes...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny today launched a new alliance between University College Cork and the Irish Management Institute. You can view the Taoiseach's full speech below...

Taoiseach Enda Kenny today officially opened the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute. EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn also attended...

The country's first Cloud Computing masters and undergraduate programmes were announced today. The programmes are being developed by EMC Corporation and the Cork Institute of Technology. Speaking at the launch, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn said...

Our higher education system has both influenced and confronted those changes. And it has evolved beyond recognition in the face of them. Flexibility and a willingness to respond to new expectations has been a hallmark of our system...

As was recently announced, the numbers of students staying in the education system as a whole will be significantly higher than expected in the 2011/12 school year. The increase meets our...