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MU research highlights challenges facing deputy principals
The research highlights the evolving role of the deputy principal and the challenges they face in primary and post-primary schools.
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Maynooth University launches ‘Turn To Teaching’ initiative to encourage diversity in education
Innovative new programme will support more than 100 students from marginalised groups in becoming teachers.
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Qualitative longitudinal research opens new opportunities for examining family and class formation in Ireland
Professor Jane Gray explores the theme of family and class in her inaugural professorial lecture ‘Lineages of class and community: How Irish family practices create social change.’
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Inspiring students recognised at Access Programme Achievement Awards
The Maynooth University Access Programme Achievement Awards celebrate success in the field of education inclusivity.
Monday, 16 April 2018
Universities should not focus solely on churning out a “productive workforce”
In the first of Maynooth University’s 2018 Inaugural Lecture Series, Prof Carl Anders Säfström argues against running universities like businesses.
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Maynooth University Professor to have key role in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sixth assessment report
Professor Peter Thorne will be a Coordinating Lead Author on the IPCC sixth assessment report cycle, the most senior position ever held by an Irish scientist.
Sunday, 08 April 2018
Ireland is the wettest it has been in more than 300 years
Maynooth University research means Ireland now has one of the longest, quality assured rainfall records anywhere in the world
Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Maynooth Scientist leads €6.3M SFI/Industry Project in Drone Operations Research
Tabharfaidh Páirtíocht Drón de chuid U-Flyte aghaidh ar an tsáinn dhomhanda a sheasann roimh oibríocht drón a fhorbairt
Monday, 26 March 2018
Maynooth University Psychology Professor Awarded Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal
Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD presented RIA Gold Medal to Professor Malcolm MacLachlan
Friday, 23 March 2018
Maynooth academics awarded new frontier research awards
Dr Karen English, Department of Biology and Dr Deborah Hayden, Department of Early Irish, have been awarded prestigious Starter Laureate awards by the IRC.
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Eurovision voting illustrates changing european relationships
Since the inaugural competition in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest has been a bastion of European pop culture, as well as a flashpoint for debate over relationships between different European countries, and even as to what makes a country European.
Tuesday, 13 March 2018