Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris launched a historic change in third-level education to ensure undergraduate students, for the first time, can earn a university degree outside the points system. From September students will be able to enrol in one of 23 degree courses across healthcare, enterprise, ICT and
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has announced the extension of Vaccination Week and rapid antigen testing pilots. Pop-up vaccination centres were established across 15 higher education sites two weeks ago. Over 3,000 students received a vaccine with 53% of them receiving their first dose. Speaking today, Minister
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Innovation, Research and Science, Simon Harris, and Minister of State, Niall Collins have welcomed the OECD report, ‘Education at a Glance’ (EAG), which showed that the number of young people in Ireland attending third-level education is significantly above the OECD average. The study found that: Ireland ranked 4th out