15 February 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie UCC’s College of Business and Law is set to host its Work Placement Awards ceremony this Wednesday, to recognise and reward exceptional student performance on placement. In 2015, over 500 students in the College of Business and Law successfully completed a Work Placement as part of the undergraduate... Read More
12 February 2016, Friday By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Deputy Mayor of the County of Cork, Cllr Kevin O’Keeffe was joined by a very special visitor at today’s Water Safety Awareness Flag Ceremony in Castlelyons, Fermoy, Co Cork. Castlelyons Primary School recently completed their Water Safety Awareness Course with Caroline Casey, Cork County Council’s Water and... Read More
12 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie During his visit to Cork today (Friday), An Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D. announced that Ireland has won a competitive global bid to co-host the Startup Nations Summit in November 2016. The event is in its fifth year and is an initiative of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN).... Read More
12 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Cork’s Lord Mayor, Cllr Chris O’Leary, officially opened the Commemoration Centre at St Peter’s Church on North Main St, last evening on Thursday, February 11. One of the city centre’s most iconic and historic buildings, the Commemoration Centre will host a wide range of exhibitions and cultural... Read More
12 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie General Election Candidate Cllr Alan Coleman (Independent) has welcomed the news that a Clonakilty student has received a top level award from the Cork Education and Training Board (CETB). High achieving students in the Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) from 23 schools across Cork City and... Read More
9 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The UCC Journalism Society are delighted to announce that they will host the 8th Annual UCC Journalism Conference in the Council Chambers, UCC, on Friday the 12th of February. This year’s conference will take a look at two of Ireland’s most debated media topics in recent weeks; the... Read More
8 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Two schools in Cork are among the first schools in Ireland to benefit from specialist teacher training in coding, aided by the donation of development boards by computing innovation world leader Intel. Teachers from St Colman’s College in Midleton and Coláiste Chraoibhin in Fermoy will be among... Read More
8 February 2016 By Tom Collins tom@TheCork.ie Academic and research staff in CIT have escalated their industrial action against the merger of CIT with IT Tralee. From today, 8th February, TUI members will work-to-rule, moving into the second phase of a three-phase industrial action which began last year. This action will cause major disruption to... Read More
8 February 8 2016 By Elaine Murphy elaine@TheCork.ie Happy Talk and Cork City Libraries have announced a citywide book swap surrounding World Book Day which takes place on March 3rd. Children across the city are invited to bring a book they no longer read to their crèche, preschool or school, over the coming weeks and... Read More
8 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie The Irish Research Council is calling on higher education institutions, public bodies and individuals in Cork to get involved in #LoveIrishResearch, a new initiative launched last week that will run throughout 2016 with the aim of increasing public awareness of the important research conducted in higher education... Read More
8 February 2016 By Bryan T. Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Tomorrow is Safer Internet Day. To mark the occasion secondary school transition year students trained as ambassadors by Intel Security will inform primary school kids in a number of schools on how to stay safe on the internet. Over 67,000 young people and 463 schools and organisations... Read More
3 February 2016 By Bryan Smyth bryan@TheCork.ie Transition year students considering a career in accounting should head along to University College Cork’s Accounting Bootcamps next week on February 10th, or on 24th and 25th February. Organised by the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems, the event aims to give students an early insight into... Read More