On the morning that this year’s Leaving Certificate results were published, there was a headline in one of the free Dublin papers proclaiming that more than 20 percent of students had failed mathematics. I was certainly aware that we had
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Editorial
Trinity’s world ranking has risen, but the system is flawed
When he saw the Times Higher Education Supplement on Thursday morning, John Hegarty must have been a happy man.
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Head to Head: Vivisection
Should we RECOGNISE SENTIENT NON-HUMANS’ rights or is animal research crucial to progress.
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Old Trinity
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OUR “civil service”
This College can be thought of as a sort of mini-state, complete with elected representatives (the Students’ Union), a civil service (the College authorities), a police force (the stewards), a populous of students and a figurehead leader in the provost.
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM
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Irish boozing habits will not be changed by restrictive laws
To tackle the problem we need more Gardaí on the streets, not nanny-state legistlation, writes Peadar Donnelly
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For business or for pleasure?
Declan Ganley emerged as a key player in the Lisbon Treaty debate, but questions about his honesty, his methods of funding Libertas and his American connections have become more and more insistent, says Aoife Crowley
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Easy access to information is dumbing down students
“There is too much learning in books these days, and too little in the head.”
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Former Editor was a ‘wise old owl’
PAUL TANSEY, a former editor of Trinity News, passed away on September 21 at the age of 59.
The Blackrock College student came to Trinity to study economics and politics in the late 1960s. He succeeded Ted Oliver to become …