With yet another year’s graduations behind us, it’s long past the time where we need to examine just how we celebrate and commemorate the graduation of Trinity students, and what should be changed about the graduation process and the ceremony …
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TEP must be criticised, but not discarded
Despite the obvious issues with this year’s implementation of TEP, improvements must be considered too
The Trinity Education Project (TEP) is a highly aspirational ideal of education reform for the College – possibly even more radical than the semi-semesterisation model introduced in 2010. Its aim to reduce the amount of assessments for students in order …
Students must show solidarity with Trade Unions
Faced with the growing commercialisation of College, students have no choice but to support industrial action
For the first time in years Trinity faces the prospect of industrial action. The current impasse between non-academic staff and College could be ended through a negotiated settlement; however, we cannot ignore the important implications of the policies College has …
College is real, gut-wrenching, terrifying freedom
“What we spend time on becomes a large part of who we are, and so deciding how to spend your time is also about deciding who you want to be.”
Last week a friend of mine, an incoming fresher in Law and Politics, messaged me: “My timetable is awfully sparse”, he said. He was referring to the 15 contact hours a week – a good number, in my estimation. “Welcome …
On being ‘religious’ in college
Jason McCann talks through his experience of attitudes towards religion in college.
Dealing with dyspraxia
In the wake of Dyspraxia Awareness Week, Doireann Dhufaigh writes about the challenges of living with this relatively unknown condition.
Ents needs to change
William Foley
Comment Editor
As the #LeadershipRace approaches, the hacks are slithering out of the CSC incubation chambers and preparing to infest the campus with shiny t-shirts, hollow promises and glossy leaflets with an average handout-to-bin lifespan of about five …
People before party tricks
Online Editor
This May, the Local and European Elections will take place, the first of their kind since the ousting of Fianna Fáil from government and the election of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition in 2011. Since then, the …
Wwoofing in the wind
John Kennedy
Staff Writer
The world we live in is a dirty one. We are invited and enticed to consume daily, to consume indiscriminately and to consume regardless of actual necessity. This is especially evident during Christmas, the festival of …
Q Soc celebrates anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality
Aonghus Ó Cochláin
Student Affairs Editor
- Amnesty director criticises lack of transgender rights
- Speakers confident of victory in same-sex marriage referendum
Ireland’s history of institutionalisation means the country should “know the consequences of pretending people don’t exist,” Colm O’Gorman, the