NCI Blog

Dr. Leo Casey, Director of NCI's Centre for Research and Innovation in Learning and Teaching, shares his thoughts on living and learning.

We at NCI are genuinely delighted to learn that our blog has been nominated in two categories in the Blog Awards Ireland 2014: Best Education Blog, and Best Corporate Blog. The Blog Awards Ireland celebrate the best in Irish blogging and, from perusing the nomination list, it’s clear that there’s an incredible amount of talent within Ireland’s blogging community.

Finding student accommodation in Dublin can be stressful – especially if it’s your first time around. With CAO offers just a few weeks away, the reported student accommodation crisis means that some students are encountering difficulties in finding a place to live. For first years and their families in particular, this is an unwanted additional worry at a time of uncertainty and change. That’s why National College of Ireland reserves a portion of on-campus accommodation for our first year students – despite the rest of our rooms booking out within two hours of applications being opened.

We’re still feeling the effects of the financial crisis on the jobs market – but some of them could actually be working in your favour.

On the second anniversary of Maeve Binchy’s death, the NCI community remember Ireland's much-loved author Today is the second anniversary of Maeve Binchy’s death, and we miss her greatly. Every day as we pass through the college Atrium, the Maeve Binchy chair reminds us of the warm and generous woman that many of us at NCI were lucky to have met, and to have worked with throughout the years.

An education at National College of Ireland provides many benefits, but not even we realised that marital bliss would be one of them.

Mobile technology is one of the most rapidly changing and in demand areas of software development today – which makes it a tremendously exciting area in which to study or work.

Gary Lineker likes to say; “Football is a simple game played over 90 minutes…and in the end the Germans win”.

An excellent question, and one we put to students, employers and lecturers on our course. Here are some of the things they told us.

Accounting student Laura crowned first Irish Miss Personality It’s an exciting summer for NCI accountancy student Laura McCormack, who has been crowned Ireland’s first Miss Personality and will go straight into the Miss Ireland finals.