O'Reilly, Patricia(University College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2008-07-03)
The aim of this report is to explore the historical development of third level
access programmes in Ireland, that is, programmes aimed at improving access to third level education by the socio-economically disadvantaged.
One ...
The aim of this paper is to analyse the characteristics of Irish households that have a member participating in higher education, using surveys of Irish households collected in 1994-95 and 1999-2000. The results do not ...
A shift in tertiary education is acknowledged and this article discusses the implications for librarians engaged in information literacy support. The article demonstrates why liaison librarians need to scan and tailor new ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-05)
Ireland’s dramatic economic boom of the 1990s has been referred to as “the era of the Celtic Tiger”. In a little over a decade, real national income per head jumped from 65 percent of the Western European average to above ...