Sep
9
2011
The 2010 SFI annual report was published yesterday. This gets some coverage in today’s Irish Times:
Ireland ranked 20th in the world for research in 2010, the report says. Irish research now ranks above the EU-27 countries and also the OECD average.
The foundation released payments of €150 million during the year and researchers receiving its support published just under 5,000 peer-reviewed papers during the year, an increase of 22 per cent on 2009.
The story is also picked up by the RTE news site:
There was also an increase of 44% in collaborations between scientific researchers and Irish industry. The foundation says this highlights a determination by the enterprise sector to innovate and increase its competitiveness.
"The day-to-day work of SFI-funded researchers is intrinsically linked to strategic sectors of our economy, from agri-food and energy to medical technologies and telecommunications," commented the Chairperson of SFI, Professor Pat Fottrell.
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Sep
5
2011
While we all realise that the world rankings for Universities (and probably most other things) is flawed, people still pay a huge amount of attention to them, and being higher is certainly better than being lower.
From today’s Irish Times:
TCD AND UCD have continued to slide down the world university rankings in a trend which will concern Government, business and heads of colleges.
The latest QS rankings – published this morning – show a substantial drop in ranking for most Irish universities.
TCD drops down 13 places to 65; UCD is down 20 places from 114 to 134. NUI Galway suffers the most dramatic fall, down 66 places to 298. UCC bucked the trend, up marginally from 184 to 181.
Not good.
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Sep
1
2011
This month’s Euroscientist website has a nice piece on the Dublin Science Gallery, located on the grounds of Trinity College Dublin. If you haven’t been there, it’s definitely worth a visit. The cafe there is pretty decent too, so it’s worthwhile dropping in for lunch or a coffee.
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