Here it is folks, what SU election candidates have been saying in their manifestos for years, a monthly SU Q&A in the Express. This year we are really focusing on transparency and an open door policy and what better way to kill two birds with one stone than to have a monthly Q&A. As this…
Enquiries have been made to various departments in UCC following a confrontation at a Young Fine Gael (YFG) society event involving An Tánaiste, Simon Coveney and two Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) protestors. The incident occurred on October 1st in the West Wing building where the meeting, which was due to be a talk on Brexit,…
On Monday 1st October, An Tánaiste Simon Coveney TD attended an event in UCC organised by the UCC Young Fine Gael society. On the night the Cork South-Central representative spoke about a range of topics including: Brexit and Housing. The University Express had exclusive access to the meeting and were able to gather an insight…
On Monday 15th October, the seven universities of Ireland (Trinity, UCD, DCU, UCC, NUIG, UL and NUI Maynooth) launched a major campaign aimed at encouraging the public to demand the Government tackles the funding crisis in third level education. The Government’s funding per third level student in Ireland (€5,000) is just half of the same…
On Monday 15th October, the seven universities of Ireland (Trinity, UCD, DCU, UCC, NUIG, UL and NUI Maynooth) launched a major campaign aimed at encouraging the public to demand the Government tackles the funding crisis in third level education. The Government’s funding per third level student in Ireland (€5,000) is just half of the same…
On the night of Monday 1st October, UCC’s Young Fine Gael Society hosted an event with An Tánaiste Simon Coveney in the West Wing 5, which was open to the public. The discussion was due to centre around the ongoing Brexit negotiations and other topical issues. As Mr Coveney entered the room, he was immediately…
By Vera O’Riordan UCC is the first university in the world to achieve the Green Flag and the ISO 150001 award and is ranked 9th out of a total of 619 universities worldwide and 1st in Ireland on the UI Green Metric. What exactly does this mean for the university beyond these achievements? It means…
A few weeks ago, a new degree in Agricultural Science was launched by UCC in a collaboration with Teagasc. The overall message that came from the grand-opening was ‘agriculture returns to Cork’, a statement which will please many around the ‘Rebel County’. This will also provide a boost to employers in the agri-food sector, who…
It was announced last month by ‘videoDoc’, an online health care organisation, that for the 2018/19 academic year, all online consultations delivered via their doctors will be free for all student members of the Union of Students in Ireland. The service has been brought in in conjunction with the USI and will make medically certified…
UCC and its staff have found themselves at the crux of a European Commission-led initiative which is set to simplify the mobility of students between Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) in Europe. The scheme has been brought forward due to the ever-increasing number of students who move between European third-level institutes for educational and leisure purposes….