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DCU included in ranking of world’s top 50 new universities.

IN A boost to the stature of higher education in Ireland, Dublin City University has been ranked among the world’s top 50 new universities.

DCU is the only Irish university featured in the prestigious QS World University Rankings of colleges less than 50 years old. Established as a university in 1989, DCU, formerly the National Institute of Higher Education, is ranked 46th.

Recovery is fragile and this is not the time to take risks.

THE IRISH people have been through a lot. And the reality is the country still has a long way to go on the road to recovery.

But now is a time when we need to be sure of the next steps we take as a nation. After weeks of arguments and counter-arguments, and the delivery of more information than ever before, the decision on the stability treaty is now in your hands. This is your choice and no one else’s and I am urging everybody to participate in making this decision.

I am asking the Irish people to see this decision as a positive step. To draw on the spirit with which we have together started our recovery over the last couple of years…

We won’t get back on our feet without debt writedowns | Irish Examiner.

For Ireland to recover from ‘horrendous’ debt problems, a significant proportion must be written down, writes Fine Gael TD Peter Mathews

A YES vote on May 31 will guarantee Ireland access to European bailout funding. It will also reassure multinational companies that the country is not on the verge of a funding crisis.

Al Qaeda hoped ‘angry Irish’ might turn to Islam | Irish Examiner.

DCU president seeks ‘coherence’ in Irish education.

AN EDUCATION think tank should be established to address the “incoherence” of the Irish education system, according to Prof Brian MacCraith, president of Dublin City University.

Delivering the keynote address at a major school-management conference, he said Ireland was at a critical point in its education history.

Fundamental reform was needed, he said, to reverse downward trends and to ensure future prosperity.