A marathon relay at the University of Limerick has helped raise more than €3,000 for a French student who suffered a stroke and is undergoing rehabilitation.

Students leaders at University College Cork (UCC) have issued an urgent appeal for student accommodation — their first such official appeal since the mid-1980s.

A bright and bubbly young woman, Karen Buckley grew up on her parents’ farm at Glynn, Mourneabbey about 12km outside Mallow in north Cork. As the youngest in her family, the 24-year-old has three older brothers: Brendan, 32; Kieran 28, and Damian 27.

UCC students are banding together for a world record attempt — in a hula-hoop challenge.

The board of Trinity College has confirmed that it has offered a salary in excess of the agreed maximum pay limits to the leading candidate for the role of professor of business studies.

NUI Galway Students’ Union will not organise a Rag Week next spring, it was decided at a meeting last night.

THE University of Limerick (UL) has been urged to increase its efforts to prevent students from making neighbouring housing estates “look like a slum”.

WITH the spiralling cost of university education a major concern for students, a number of Cork businesses have established university scholarships for budding student entrepreneurs.

Radical Islamic extremism is being openly practised at a leading university campus, a report today claimed.

THE authorities at University College Cork (UCC) have agreed to reexamine their books to see if a proposed €65 graduation fee can be reduced.

STUDENTS at University College Cork (UCC) may organise their own graduation ceremonies this year to avoid a controversial new graduation charge, it emerged yesterday.

The UCC Students Union has hit out at the college for bringing in a graduation fee of €65.

STUDENT leaders criticised the Government last night after a top university was forced to impose a €65 fee on students wishing to attend their graduation ceremony.

UNIVERSITY College Cork is the first third level educational institution in the world to be accredited with the prestigious international Green Flag award.

ALMOST 500 white crosses have been erected as part of an awareness initiative remembering the victims of suicide was yesterday launched by the Students’ Union at the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) in conjunction with Mental Awareness Week there.

Students at Athlone IT are being offered bus transport in and out of the college after a young woman was attacked near the campus – the fourth in 18 months.

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

I APPEAL to any of your readers who may have empty rooms in their homes, or who may have vacant property elsewhere, to make such space available to third-level students in desperate need of somewhere to stay for the coming year.

Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte is to step down today after five years in the position, party sources confirmed.

THE stark reality of Ireland’s road carnage was laid bare by college students touched by tragedy yesterday.

The University of Ulster has postponed a Students’ Union election due to alleged intimidation by supporters of the Continuity IRA.