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Congratulations to the final year students who were awarded prizes for their work on Strategic Management, including a strategic analysis on the Irish company Makers and Brothers as a live business case. Many thanks too to the two founders, Jonathan and Mark, who came in and watched all 34 presentations and read through the case studies – they were really impressed with the students’ work and enthusiasm, and kindly presented prizes to the winning teams on Wednesday 22nd February.

This year’s Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE) has gotten off to a flying start. Running from 6th February to 28th February here at National College of Ireland, almost 500 of our students have already had their say in the 2017 edition of this annual nationwide survey.

National College of Ireland is participating in this year’s Irish Survey of Student Engagement (ISSE) from today, Monday, February 6th, until Sunday, February 26th, 2017. Now in its fourth year, the survey is a nationwide opportunity for eligible students to have their say about their college experience.

Desmond Gibney, an accounting lecturer from National College of Ireland, recently raised almost €6,000 for charity through a 12 hour non-stop lecture. The event was in memory of Eoin Fennessy, better known as Fenno, who graduated from NCI in 2004 and sadly passed away from a malignant brain tumour in 2016. Read more of Eoin’s story.

January is the most popular month for job-hunting, with career progression featuring on many a list of new year resolutions. And according to Monster, today, the first Wednesday of January, is traditionally the biggest job-search day of the entire year. With so much competition, it makes sense to put a special strategy in place - and National College of Ireland is here to help you do just that.

The Christmas countdown has started and we’re all relishing the thought of disabling our alarms and chasing all thoughts of deadlines and meetings away until the new year. The festive break is a time to unwind and spend time with family and friends, so we can return to work, recharged and refocused, in January.

Irish companies are being presented with an opportunity to fill IT skills gaps in their workforce without charge, by enrolling staff members on free, degree-level courses at National College of Ireland under the HEA ICT Skills programme.

We’ve decked the halls, the carols are playing and the students have finished their second semester. Christmas is almost upon us once more, and all that’s left is for us to wish all of our friends, students, alumni and the entire NCI community a very merry Christmas and a happy new year, and to thank you for your continued support.

Recent violence in Dublin’s North Inner City has led to the establishment of a Ministerial Taskforce charged with supporting the community to deal with the present situation and work together to envision and plan for a better future.

As anyone who comes back to college as a working adult will know, becoming an excellent time manager is an often unexpected benefit. But it can feel like a baptism of fire, as the demands of your work, home life and studies all cry out for your attention and pull you in different directions at once.