65% of campaigners in the recent Students’ Union (SU) elections who responded to a survey said that the two weeks allocated to electioneering each year was too long. The study, conducted by second-year class rep Madison Bowlby, found that 55% …
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Inside the Dublin language school using ‘Trinity’ name
“Trinity English School” has been accused of conning students and failing to pay staff.
A Dublin language school using the name Trinity English School has been accused of failing to pay staff and conning students who say they had to cut their courses short after being misled by false advertising, Trinity News can reveal. …
Politicisation of SU elections a welcome change
Candidates in our yearly SU elections have generally had the remarkable ability to appear apolitical, usefully able to represent all campus views when conditions dictate, even when their political stances have been in line with the status quo. They win …
Candidates address students at dining hall hustings
The second day of campaigning for this year’s Trinity College Students’ Union (TCDSU) sabbatical elections saw all 16 candidates take part in the traditional dining hall hustings at lunchtime today.
President
Gabriel Adewusi, a third-year human health and diseases student, …
Scammed international students still in limbo after school closure
Over a hundred international students are still out of pocket after the sudden closure of Shelbourne College, but efforts to clean up the private college sector as a whole have met with little success so far.
Mayank Gupta’s worst fears were realised last Monday when Shelbourne College failed to reopen after the Christmas break. The 21-year-old Indian national was told, along with some 60 other recently arrived international students, that classes at the Camden Street-based English …
University Times issue withdrawn as Phil members remove distributed papers
Society members removed copies of the paper from campus locations after it printed details of confidential correspondences.
The University Times (UT) withdrew its latest issue on Tuesday after reporting on the content of documents that had been provided to the paper on the condition that they not be referred to in an article.
Trinity News has learned …
One in four female TCD students sexually assaulted – survey
SU welfare officer, Ian Mooney, is in talks to introduce compulsory sexual consent workshops for students.
One in four female students at Trinity College who responded to a students’ union survey has had a non-consensual sexual experience. The soon-to-be-released study, which surveyed 1,038 male and female students online between December 8th and 13th, found that 25% …
Student union election candidates announced
17 students were this evening announced as candidates in the upcoming SU elections after nominations closed at 5pm today.
Running for the position of SU president are Lynn Ruane, Conor O’Meara, Gabriel Adewusi, Adam Colton and Nessan Harpur.
In the …
New student accommodation to be partly funded by €70m European loan
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is set to lend €70m to Trinity College in a deal that will help finance capital projects including the construction of additional student accommodation and the new Trinity School of Business, according to a report …
Trinity lecturer warning over offensive cartoons
Trinity College lecturer Dr. Ali Selim has warned Irish media not to reprint “anti-Islam” cartoons.
He was speaking in the wake of today’s attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people.
The last tweet on the publication’s …