There is uncertainty about when third-level colleges can become technological universities (TUs) but the Government insists some will be in place by the end of the year.

A spike in third-level students registering with mental health conditions has been attributed to better supports and reduced stigma.

Colleges that make unauthorised payments to staff or make misleading or false financial reports could be hit with financial penalties from the end of this year, the Government has decided.

Junior ministers have backed calls by Higher Education Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor for equal pay for teachers.

TWO wild elephants trampled one person to death in a three-hour rampage in the southern Indian city of Mysore, causing widespread panic, officials said.

Higher Education Minister Bill Rammell travelled to Israel today to show solidarity with Israeli academics amid efforts by a British professors’ union to shun Israeli colleagues in protest of the occupation of Palestinian territories.

About 70 victims of a mass kidnapping at an office of the Higher Education Ministry have been released, a ministry spokesman said today, but officials were unable to say how many remained captive.

UNIVERSITY College Cork is on the verge of signing a formal agreement with Malaysia to train medical students and it is possible that further initiatives, such as setting up an Irish campus in that country, could follow.