University College Cork has secured a High Court injunction preventing planned pickets at some entrances to the college’s main campus tomorrow by employees of Tyndall National Institute in a dispute over pay.

The High Court will rule on Monday on University College Cork’s application for an injunction preventing picketing at some entrances to the main campus next week by employees of a research institute.

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

Attempts to impose wide changes to terms for new and promoted staff at University College Cork have been met with a threat of industrial action by academic staff.

The chief executive of the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises association yesterday hit out at what he described as the ‘crocks of gold’ received by retiring university dons.

World Teachers’ Day has just passed and to mark the occasion we, the leaders of all the teachers’ and lecturers’ unions in Ireland and Great Britain would like to pose three questions:

Chocolate treats, wellies recycled as plant pots, and computer coding lessons, are among the ‘brainchildren’ of some of the country’s youngest budding innovators.

Academics at three Dublin training colleges are discussing their concerns over a DCU merger today.

A one-day strike which could have brought UCC to a halt today has been called off in light of agreement on how to resolve a pay dispute at one of its most prestigious research centres.

Lecture cancellations and library closures could be possible next week as an industrial dispute at one of University College Cork’s and the country’s most prestigious research centres hits the main campus.

A new campaign is being launched today by lecturers in some of Ireland's top colleges to 'Defend the University'.

University teachers have said a 5% cut to third-level student maintenance grants in the forthcoming Budget would be "a fatal blow" to such institutions.

The Irish Federation of University Teachers is holding a private conference today to discuss whether to recommend accepting or rejection of the Haddington Road Agreement.

Up to 100 researchers at the Tyndall National Institute in UCC will demonstrate this morning, in a bid to get their wages brought into line with other staff at the university.

The union representing university teachers is to seek legal advice to establish whether legislation imposing pay cuts on public servants is constitutional.

The proposed deal with teacher unions gives some concessions on what they rejected, but it is unclear if they are enough to assuage anger about a range of cuts and extra work required.

The Irish Federation of University Teachers will make a decision today whether or not to enter public sector pay discussions with the LRC over a revised Croke Park deal.

Teacher unions remain uncertain about their next steps in relation to the proposals from the Labour Relations Commission.

Ireland’s brightest researchers will have to emigrate because of the lure of higher redundancy if they agree not to work in the public service for another two years, a union claims.

Compulsory redundancies for public service workers were ruled out by Taoiseach Enda Kenny yesterday who said such measures were not part of the current Croke Park deal.

The Labour Court has told TCD to re-employ three staff who were let go last year, because under the Croke Park Agreement there should be no compulsory redundancies in the public service.

Irish University lecturers work longer hours than their European counterparts, according to a report discussed today at the Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) conference.

The Labour Court has rejected a claim by researchers at one of Europe’s largest research centres for information technology for pay parity with their colleagues at University College Cork.

The Higher Education Authority (HEA) has this morning published new plans to reform third-level institutions.

The loss of two lecturing jobs at Trinity College has prompted the trade union for academics to suspend support for the Croke Park Agreement.

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.

UNIVERSITY College Cork has been accused of planning a “monumental waste of taxpayers’ money” by appealing a Labour Court award of increased redundancy to a former employee.

THIRD-LEVEL bosses are set to resist attempts to cut further jobs as figures obtained by the Irish Examiner show that some colleges have already reduced staffing by almost 10% in the last two years.

Some Irish universities are being accused of breaking the law today by putting their researchers, librarians and other staff on temporary contracts.

THE Irish Federation of University Teachers (IFUT) has criticised the failure of the Minister for Education to appoint the nominated academic staff representative to the Board of the Higher Education Authority.

COLLEGE charges for student services which the Government may increase to around €2,500 are only costing universities between €1,589 and €1,943 a year per head.

STUDENTS at Trinity College Dublin, facing the prospect of further cuts to services in the autumn, are angry at the promotion of almost 30 academics.

ALL four teacher unions are now open to discussing possible work reforms, despite three of them rejecting the Croke Park public service pay deal in recent ballots.

Members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers have joined their second level counterparts in the ASTI and TUI in rejecting the publc sector pay-and-reform deal.

UNIVERSITY College Cork has yesterday expressed grave concern about how details of an internal sexual harassment complaint have become public on the internet.

TRAVEL policies which allowed University College Cork president Dr Michael Murphy rack up a €25,000 flight bill over two years have been tightened significantly, he has insisted.

PUBLIC sector unions have warned they will embark on a long and sustained campaign of industrial action if the Government attempts to impose pay cuts and changes in conditions without agreement.

COLLEGES are under pressure to meet demand for rising student numbers in the face of falling budgets from the Government, the Higher Education Authority has warned.

A STAND-OFF between universities and their funding agency over academic autonomy has left hundreds of lecturing posts unfilled despite colleges being given an exemption from the ban on public service recruitment.

The Irish Federation of University Teachers is expressing concern that universities here are becoming too commercialised.

ANY cuts to teachers’ pay or further education cutbacks look almost certain to trigger industrial action by 15,000 members of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI), who are to be balloted for possible strikes.

A PLANNED recruitment embargo in the country’s third level colleges will restrict their autonomy which is enshrined in law, a union has claimed.