Trinity alumnus and Web Summit founder Patrick Cosgrave warned students that they are living in the “last decade of the professional class” at an event hosted by the Phil and Trinity Entrepreneurial Society on Wednesday. He said that rapid advances …
Andrew O’Donovan
Bring back fees
The last half-decade has been one of the most tumultuous of recent times: be it the detested FF government that implemented the bank guarantee or the Savita Halappanavar tragedy that absorbed the nation, there has been plenty for students to …
Dublin falls out of top 20 in ranking of best student cities
In a new ranking of the world’s best student cities published by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) this week, Dublin comes 32nd, down from 15th last year and 9th the year before.
Paris tops the list for the third year in a …
Large drop in number of gold medals awarded
Only 49 students in the graduating class of 2014 were awarded a gold medal, a decline of 39% on the average of the previous five years, College documents show.
Gold medals are awarded to graduates who show “exceptional merit” in …
The ‘ISIS crisis’ must be resolved in Syria, says Middle East academic
Nader Hashemi: Saudi Arabia interpretation of Islam has had a “corrosive effect” worldwide
“All roads lead to Damascus” in the fight to destroy ISIS, the Jihadi rebel group, Nader Hashemi told students at an event hosted by the Society for International Affairs (SoFIA) yesterday.
Hashemi, the director of the Centre for Middle East …
German finance minister calls for “shift in national sovereignty to European institutions”
Germany’s minister of finance, Wolfgang Schäuble, today called for a “shift in national sovereignty to European institutions” at a debate on European financial policy in Trinity’s Long Room Hub. Speaking at the event, the minister said he is a “strong …