Twenty-one students at Athlone Institute of Technology, who had been told last month that their degree programme in audiology had been cancelled, will be able to complete the course.

The decision to cancel the country’s first undergraduate course in audiology has been described as a “fiasco”, the High Court has heard.

The High Court has heard how Athlone IT was told not to proceed with a new course in audiology that has been scrapped after just one year.

Two third-level students have brought a High Court challenge against the decision to cancel the country’s first undergraduate audiology course.

The British Academy of Audiology has said it ended its interaction with Athlone Institute of Technology last year on the college’s audiology degree that was ended after a year last week.

Athlone Institute of Technology was told a year ago not to go ahead with the country’s first audiology degree, which was cancelled this week, leaving 21 students with an uncertain future.

More than 20 students training to be audiologists are in academic limbo after Athlone Institute of Technology cancelled the course a year into their studies.

Dublin Institute of Technology 3-08 University College Cork 0-07

Sigerson Cup semi-final: UCC 1-20 Athlone IT 1-9

DIT and UCC booked their places in tomorrow's Sigerson Cup Final at 3pm in Athlone IT following semi-final wins over DCU and AIT respectively this afternoon.

With grown men banging the blue-boarded track and a raucous crowd standing on their feet as John Travers broke eight minutes for the 3,000m, it truly was Super Sunday at the Woodie’s DIY National Indoor Championships in Athlone in a day to remember for Irish athletics aficionados.

Sigerson Cup quarter-final: Athlone IT 0-11 CIT 1-4

Fionnuala Britton had a fine third place finish over 3,000m in Karlsruhe on Saturday evening, running a personal best of 8:55.22 behind Meseret Defar’s 8:35.28 as a host of Irish athletes competed around the globe.

Athlone IT 1-13 IT Carlow 0-6

Athlone IT’s indoor track can make Irish athletics stand out from the crowd, writes Feidhlim Kelly

FORMER GAA President Joe McDonagh will chair a committee of former Fitzgibbon Cup players and managers that will select a ‘Team Of The Century’ from a shortlist of 75 third-level hurling stars, as part of the competition’s centenary celebrations this year.

The draws for the 2012 Higher Education GAA Championships, including the prestigious Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cups, were made this afternoon in Croke Park.

ALARM was raised last night as it emerged third-level institutions have dumped a €790m pension deficit on taxpayers.

A DOUBLE-JOBBING college lecturer has been blocked from claiming two pensions after concern was raised over lax governance standards in the third-level system.

Leinster champions Dublin were forced to dig deep against a determined Wexford side, before taking a 2-10 to 0-8 O'Byrne Cup first round win at Parnell Park.

A LECTURER who secretly double-jobbed by working in two colleges at the same time is likely to receive two pensions, it has emerged.

GAA president Christy Cooney has committed Croke Park for the staging of the 2011 Ulster Bank GAA Sigerson Cup final.

THE taxpayers’ watchdog has described a belief among some third-level lecturers, that their obligations cease after providing 16 class contact hours a week, as disturbing.

Gardaí were today investigating possible links between a serious assault on a 19-year-old woman in Athlone and three similar attacks.

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The disgraced lecturer, Dr Niall McElwee, who resigned from his post after being charged with sexual offences against three teenage girls, worked part-time in a home for abused and disadvantaged children in Galway.

The HSE has said it will conduct an investigation without delay into the extent of knowledge of allegations regarding a former department head at Athlone IT.

It has emerged that the Gardaí told the Midland Health Board about allegations of sexual assault involving a department head at Athlone Institute of Technology as far back as June 2004.

THIRD-LEVEL students currently completing the final year of an honours business-related degree should consider progression to a postgraduate qualification, according to the Head of the Business School at Athlone Institute of Technology.

Dozens of Irish firms are today expected to sign major business deals in the United Arab Emirates, which now has direct air links with Dublin.

The power of the London market's watchdog to tackle cases of market abuse was seen to have been sharpened today by the landmark conviction of a company boss.

IRELAND’S aspirations in the European Show Jumping Championships were dealt a crushing blow yesterday with the withdrawal of Clarion Hotels Coolcorron Cool Diamond and Roberts Splaine.