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Could YOU be the best student in Ireland?

Posted by Emily Ferns on 05 February 2014
NCI students encouraged to enter gradireland's National Student Challenge The gradireland National Student Challenge is an annual competition that uncovers the best students across Ireland. Students take a range of online aptitude tests and the top 60 are selected to compete at an event where they face physical and mental challenges set by top graduate employers.
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Marketing Mavericks Talk with Dan Germain

Posted by Emily Ferns on 30 January 2014
innocent's head of brand and creative launches new event series at NCI Strive to be interesting or useful, was the key message for companies from Dan Germain, head of brand and creative at innocent, at the first of NCI’s new Marketing Mavericks talks.
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Science Without Borders: Lucas’s story

Posted by Emily Ferns on 28 January 2014
Brazilian student Lucas Dias Ferreira shares his experiences of studying at NCI in Dublin under Brazil's Science Without Borders (Ciência sem Fronteiras) scholarship scheme. National College of Ireland is delighted to welcome Brazilian students under Brazil’s Science without Borders (Ciência sem Fronteiras) scholarship scheme and has a vibrant international community both living and studying at our city centre campus in Dublin. We look forward to enriching this community over the coming years as we welcome more students from Brazil to enjoy the intellectual, cultural and social aspects of life at NCI.
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NCI is a finalist in the Samsung Digital Media Awards 2014

Posted by Emily Ferns on 15 January 2014
National College of Ireland is delighted to be a finalist in this year’s Samsung Digital Media Awards 2014, which will take place on the 21st of February in the DoubleTree by Hilton Dublin, Burlington Road. NCI is a finalist for ‘Best Company Using Digital’; there are 24 categories in total which are intended to recognize and reward excellence in digital media.
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dot conf deep dive series at NCI’s Cloud Competency Centre

Posted by Emily Ferns on 13 December 2013
Check out the notes from NCI's web technology event series NCI’s dot conf deep dive series is a spin off from the one day web and technology conference that previously took place at the college. The deep dive workshops were always a popular part of the day and allowed attendees to pick up a few hands-on technical skills and to brush up on their knowledge of the latest web technologies and applications.
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Love at first sight – Alisha’s Experience of Ireland and NCI

Posted by Emily Ferns on 05 December 2013
Why travel to Ireland from India to study? Alisha, an international student at NCI, shares her story.
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Learn with Dr Eugene O’Loughlin - Lecturer at NCI

Posted by Emily Ferns on 03 December 2013
NCI lecturer Dr Eugene O’Loughlin, who lectures in the School of Computing at the college’s city centre Dublin campus, runs a very popular YouTube channel. Eugene established the channel, called Learn with Dr Eugene O’Loughlin, in 2009, initially as a learning and revision aid for his own students at NCI.
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Your New Year’s Resolutions Start Here!

Posted by Emily Ferns on 18 November 2013
NCI is running a number of courses which start in early 2014 Do you want to step up your career, develop new skills and knowledge, or build on an existing qualification? Are you interested in high-growth areas like digital marketing, data analytics and cloud computing? Or perhaps more traditional areas like human resource management, pensions or personal finance interest you more?
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NCI President Travels to Mexico

Posted by Emily Ferns on 29 October 2013
National College of Ireland builds partnership with Mexican university NCI President Dr Phillip Matthews has signed an agreement with ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara in Mexico, witnessed by the Irish and Mexican Presidents (photo first tweeted by the Embassy of Ireland in Mexico). Dr Matthews was also quoted in the Irish Times (23/10/13) as he "‘described Mexico as a very new market for university partnerships." So the college was "breaking new ground and getting there early" by signing an agreement with ITESO, the Jesuit College of Guadalajara.
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Dublin Chamber of Commerce SMART Series

Posted by Emily Ferns on 18 October 2013
David Gentle, Fujitsu, speaks on Entering the New Tech Era David Gentle, Director of Foresight at Fujitsu spoke at a breakfast event this week organised by the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. His talk, which was part of Dublin Chamber’s SMART series, was entitled Entering the New Tech Era and looked at how technology is enabling businesses to operate in new ways.
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