A university president has warned that any more delays in solving the funding crisis in higher education will damage thousands of students.

VATICAN chiefs have ordered trainee priests at Ireland’s national seminary at Maynooth to be physically separated from the university’s 8,000 lay students.

THE chances of entry to 16 colleges are boosted again this year for students with disabilities or from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

THE search is on again to find Ireland’s best young scientist.

PUPILS whose teachers take classroom management training are better behaved and have a better chance in the education system, research suggests.

National University of Ireland Maynooth is to introduce a bonus points scheme for higher Leaving Certificate maths on a trial period, it emerged today.

THE replacement of Leaving Certificate results with other methods to determine points for college entry could add to the pressure on school-leavers instead of easing it, Institute of Guidance Counsellors president Eilis Coakley has claimed.

A COLLEGE boss has called for third level institutions to change the entry points system which is causing huge stress to students.

COLLEGE hopefuls have turned towards general arts degrees and the science and engineering courses with the lure of good careers, according to the first statistics on this year’s record 71,843 applications.

DUBLIN Institute of Technology has postponed exams scheduled for next Monday due to uncertainty over the weather but those due to go on for the rest of the week are still going ahead.

Support for Irish is stronger in the east of the country than in the traditional heartland of the west, new research revealed tonight.

COLLEGE students are likely to be expected to pay back the costs of their third-level education after graduating rather than their families paying fees up front, Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe indicated yesterday.

EDUCATION Minister Batt O’Keeffe has urged high-earning third-level academics and managers to take the pay cuts already being offered by senior civil servants after it emerged 50 university bosses were paid €10 million last year.

SCHOOL staff are often more uneasy than their students about young people being openly gay, research has found.

THE highest research income and an almost perfect jobs record for graduates has helped National University of Ireland Maynooth to the top of the pile in a ranking of the country’s seven universities.

THIRD-LEVEL bosses are insisting they will not allow students to lose out because of a Government order to cut their wage bills by 3% for the next year.

PENALTY shoot-out secures Irish soccer victory! No, it’s not an archive headline after Packie Bonner’s famous save against Romania in Genoa, but rather the story of an Irish team whose robots did the business to become the world’s best in China last week.

THE country’s three biggest third-level universities have scooped almost half of a €58 million funding boost for research facilities in higher education.

PROJECTS to help students with disabilities access and benefit from third-level courses are among dozens of programmes that will benefit from a total of €97 million in government funding announced yesterday.

STUDENTS in the midlands are least likely to take science and technology degree programmes at college, according to new figures.

IRISH research could lead to a range of treatments for a muscle-wasting disease affecting dozens of boys in this country alone.

A TOP American technology firm will donate $750,000 (€625,120) worth of software licenses every year to the National University of Ireland, Maynooth to assist in teaching and academic research.

ONE-IN-THREE motorists spends on average more than two hours a day stuck in traffic, with the number of cars on the road now at an all-time high.