Students at University College Cork (UCC) could be paying an extra €50 a year to fund improved sports and recreation facilities if a vote that concludes today is passed.

Students are being warned by University College Cork management of the disciplinary and legal repercussions of misbehaving or disrespecting local residents ahead of their annual fundraising week.

Business and industry are allowed too much influence on Ireland’s research agenda, University College Cork’s outgoing president claims.

Management at University College Cork has done a U-turn on its decision to call time on the Old Bar.

Student leaders have vowed to fight a management decision to close the landmark old college bar at University College Cork (UCC).

University College Cork’s Student Union is to campaign for the repeal of the Eighth Amendment, which introduced a constitutional ban on abortion, following a poll of its students.

Concerned chemical engineering students at University College Cork have been told every effort is being made to reverse the loss of accreditation for their degrees caused by a delay in replacing a professor.

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

The Irish Examiner and University College Cork (UCC) will host a live online Q&A for students today.

The Irish Examiner and University College Cork (UCC) are teaming up to host a live online Leaving Certificate results clinic this Thursday, August 13 as tens of thousands of students consider their options.

Students at University College Cork want assurances that library and other services will not be hit by a strike during exams next week.

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Irish schools need to put more of an emphasis on mental health, according to Voice of Ireland coach Bressie.

Women are now drinking as much as men, a study of college students has found.

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UCC students are staging sit-ins at the campus library as they continue to fight for extended opening hours onsite in the run up to exams.

A college student union has offered a safe haven for the sinner who stole a statue of the Virgin Mary if they want to repent and make right their wrongs.

Student Colin Bradley from Mallow, Co Cork, is the main driver behind an initiative at University College Cork he hopes will drive home the message “it’s ok not to feel ok, and it’s absolutely ok to ask for help.”

Facebook has done a U-turn and shut down a “sexist” page which published photographs of female students at University College Cork.

A university has condemned cyberbullying after photographs of students, some in comprising and vulnerable situations, were published on Facebook pages.

The level of cuts to the education budget in 2014 could be anything from €44m to €100m, according to Ruairi Quinn, the education minister.

Former senator and Green Party TD Dan Boyle is making a return to college this September to “get a handle on the theory” behind politics.

Government TDs will face the wrath of students if maintenance grants are cut and college fees increased in the budget, student leaders warned yesterday.

Public order arrests in Cork City are running at treble the normal rates during Rag Week at the university as residents complain that efforts to control antisocial behaviour are not working.

A group of students staged a protest today outside the office of the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe, over what they see as the failure to address the problems of high youth unemployment and emigration.

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

STUDENTS have reacted angrily to the call by University College Cork’s president for a hike in the €1,500 registration fee in the upcoming budget.

UCC Students’ Union president Eoin Hayes has expressed hope any strike action that library staff might take will not affect quality of service.

ALMOST half of all college students are vulnerable to identity fraud according to a new survey.

TWO families yesterday paid special tribute to the two students killed in a road accident in Portugal.