The winners of the ESB-Universities Ireland North/South postgraduate scholarships for the 2011-2012 academic year are: Joyce Acheson, a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, doing a Masters in Advanced Mechanical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast Jonathan Mitchell, a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast, doing an MA in Contemporary European Philosophy at University College Dublin Marian McGrath,Continue reading 2011-2012 ESB-Universities Ireland North/South postgraduate award winners announced →

The Permanent Secretary of the NI Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, David Sterling (standing in for the Minister, Arlene Foster MLA, who was taken ill) presented the 2010 Universities Ireland/IBEC-CBI Joint Business Council North/South postgraduate scholarships to five students at a ceremony in the Stormont Hotel in Belfast on 7 December 2010 at 12.30pm.Continue reading Universities Ireland-Joint Business Council North/South Scholarships award ceremony →

Universities Ireland sponsored the first debate at Trinity College Dublin’s ‘The Hist’ this evening in what is hoped will become a regular debate series in all Irish universities on aspects of the future of the island of Ireland. The title of this first debate was ‘What should Ireland look like in 20 years time?’ TheContinue reading 1st north/south student debate at TCD →

Over 100 senior academics and researchers from Northern Ireland, Ireland, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa met for three days in Queen’s University Belfast on 29 September-1 October for the fifth workshop and conference of the Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (co-sponsored by Universities Ireland and Irish Aid). Among the keynote speakers wereContinue reading Mary Robinson addresses 5th Irish-African Partnership workshop in Belfast →

The internationally eminent Australian educationalist, Professor Malcolm Skilbeck, will be the speaker at the autumn Universities Ireland council meeting on 17th September 2010 in Dublin. Professor Skilbeck was Professor and Dean of Education at the University of Ulster from 1971 to 1975. In 1976 he took on the leadership of the newly founded Australian Curriculum DevelopmentContinue reading Malcolm Skilbeck addresses Universities Ireland council meeting →

Four Universities Ireland/IBEC-CBI Joint Business Council North-South postgraduate scholarships for the academic year 2009-2010 have been awarded. Two of these scholarships, in subjects of interest to business, are jointly funded by Universities Ireland and two firms (Dublin Port Company and RPS Group), and two by Universities Ireland alone. They are worth €15,000 each. Bryan TContinue reading Universities Ireland-Joint Business Council North/South Scholarships award ceremony →

Nobel Peace Laureate to address Universities Ireland event 22 September 2009 The 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr Shirin Ebadi from Iran, will address the launch of the Scholars at Risk Ireland Section, which is being run by Universities Ireland, in Trinity College Dublin on Tuesday 22 September. Scholars at Risk is an international networkContinue reading Nobel Peace Laureate to address Universities Ireland event →

The Taoiseach, Mr Brian Cowen TD, with the winners of the 2008 Universities Ireland-CBI-IBEC North/South Masters bursaries at the award ceremony in Trinity College Dublin on 2 October. Seamus Carlin, a graduate of University of Ulster, is doing a PhD in the Performance Management of Sustainable Communites at the Centre for Cooperative Studies at UniversityContinue reading Taoiseach gives awards to Universities Ireland-IBEC-CBI North/South Masters Bursary Winners →

8 April 2008 President McAleese will open the first four-day workshop of the Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAPRCB) at Dublin City University on 8 April 2008. This first workshop (of six) will be attended by 50-60 university and academic leaders from the nine participating Irish and Northern Irish universities and the four participatingContinue reading President opens first Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building workshop →

The Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (2008-2011) brings together all nine universities on the island of Ireland and four universities in Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique and Malawi* in a unique, high-level partnership to develop a coordinated approach to Research Capacity Building (RCB) in higher education institutions. The IAPRCB aims: To build the capacity for developmentContinue reading The Irish-African Partnership for Research Capacity Building (IAPRCB) →