School leavers will be able to work towards a degree and earn a salary at the same time when up to 100 apprentices begin training in the insurance industry for the first time this autumn.

For many a hungry student, finding a way to the grocery shop each week can be a daunting task.

It is just over two years, almost to the day, since the tragic death of a child devastated the north Cork town of Charleville.

Murder-suicides are relatively rare but can be as difficult to predict as suicides, meaning intervention is difficult.

THE question of how schools should decide which children to enrol is to be set down by state regulations.

A RETURN to mass student protests cannot be ruled out as long as uncertainty remains about efficient grant payments, Union of Students in Ireland (USI) president Tony McDonnell warned last night.

The rapid spread of alien species through oceans and seas is playing havoc with the world’s delicate environment, experts will warn this week.

THE American telecommunications company Bell Labs plans to develop two state-of-the-art research centres in Ireland at a total cost of €69 million.

THE Institute of Technology Sligo is anxious to foster friendly, life-long contacts between our graduates.

DO you have a friend or a family member living in Boston who studied at the Institute of Technology, Sligo?

The Irish women’s football squad for the World University Games in Korea in August has now been finalised.