A big jump for NUI Galway brings a ray of light to an otherwise worrying performance by Irish colleges in the latest major world university league table.

Ireland’s universities have fallen down the international league table again. Should we be concerned, asks Kyran Fitzgerald.

The British prime minister has warned Scottish voters the referendum is not about giving the "effing Tories" a kick as Westminster heavyweights headed north of the border in an attempt to save the union.

Dublin Institute of Technology has joined two other Irish colleges in a ranking of the world’s top young universities.

Irish universities have failed to make the top 100 list of the world's most prestigious institutions.

By Niall Murray, Education Correspondent

Trinity College Dublin has plunged further down the rankings of the world’s best universities.

The Times survey is not reflective of the industry and research undertaken here, writes Orla Feely

Irish academics have been branded bottom of the class in a global study of researchers.

IRISH academics are bottom of the class when it comes to attracting investment from big business, a worldwide study of universities shows.

Universities see world rankings as means to attract paying students, writes education correspondent Niall Murray.

A €136m boost to colleges and the economy could result from a deal to send thousands of Brazilian students here over the next four years.

Dublin City University has been ranked among the world’s best in a league table of the world's young universities.

EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn is under pressure to decide soon on student fees or some other source of funding to meet a looming €500 million gap in third-level budgets after the country’s drop in the latest world university rankings.

THE head of the Higher Education Authority has said a drop in another set of world rankings by the country’s top two universities should be a wake-up call to speed up reforms.

TRINITY College Dublin is being forced to rely on foreign donors to fund lecturing posts because of the deepening financial crisis facing the university sector.

Trinity College Dublin was today ranked the 43rd best university in the world in a top international survey.