IRISH language television station TG4’s independence from RTÉ from April will create opportunities for television producers, especially working through Irish, a Waterford-based company and education bosses say.

THE number of migrant workers seeking recognition for their foreign education qualifications has increased eight-fold over the past three years, it emerged last night.

THE number of migrant workers seeking recognition for their foreign education qualifications has increased eight-fold over the past three years, it emerged last night.

UNIVERSITY College Dublin (UCD) is to review its procedures following revelations that one of its senior academics and a former part-time lecturer received a PhD from a controversial US degree mill.

Fresh questions have been raised as a result of a probe by the Department of Enterprise into the status of the American doctoral degree obtained by the Government’s Chief Science Adviser, Dr Barry McSweeney.

A DEPARTMENT of Enterprise probe has raised fresh questions about the status of a PhD received in America by the Government’s top scientific adviser.

The Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin, and the British Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Ruth Kelly, today launched a new guide for comparing qualifications in Ireland and the UK.