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National College of Ireland is delighted to announce the return of the very popular lunchtime series In the Psychologists' Chair. The event series will cover topics such as the psychology of homicidal behaviour, the effects of loneliness on your heart and how to apply psychology to education.

Between the Grammys, the BAFTAs and the Oscars, awards season is well and truly underway - and the world of academia is no different!

On the 17th December, teams of students from NCI will spend just 24 hours designing, developing and deploying websites for charities Today, the 17th of December, marks the second year of a twenty four hour charity appeal – Webmas – run under the auspices of Sam Cogan, a lecturer in NCI's School of Computing. In his running of the Certificate in Web Development course last year, Sam convinced fifteen students from his classes to take part in Webmas 2013; Webmas 2014 has now reached forty participants.

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.

Annual Discover University programme concludes at NCI

The most recent Marketing Mavericks event took place on April 23rd at National College of Ireland with Dave Allen, founding member of the post punk band Gang Of Four, who now works as Adjunct Lecturer on Digital Strategy at the University of Oregon and Director of Artist & Music Industry Advocacy at Beats Music. Dave, who describes his role with Beats as ‘part education, part awareness’, was drawn to the company because it is led by people who are strongly rooted in the music industry – from noted producer Jimmy Iovine to Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Dr Dre.

NCI launches new event series in association with The Irish Times

Thanks so much to everyone who took party in our Twitter Party for NCI’s Certificate in Digital Marketing on Friday (follow us @NCIRL and @NCIRLDigital). A cross between a coffee morning, an open day and a good ol’ chinwag, this online event was a first for us at the college and we were delighted with your support and interaction. We trended #1 in Dublin and Ireland and got to chat person-to-person with lots of people with an interest in our level 8 accredited digital marketing course. And of course, we were giving away some brilliant prizes too – to find out if this is your lucky day, keep reading! Prize winners

Win prizes, chat to lecturers, hear everything you need to know about the Certificate in Digital Marketing, all through twitter! To celebrate the next intake of NCI’s Cert in Digital Marketing, and to answer any final questions you might have about the course, we’re having a little gathering online. We’ll have some of our kickass lecturers available for chats, and some past students will be on-hand to share their experiences of the course. We’ll also have all sorts of amazing prizes to give away, the biggest, best and most exciting being a free place on our digital marketing course* (worth €1990). This kicks off on February 12th and will run on two evenings a week, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 6.30 to 9.30pm. We’ll have lots of other prizes too; here’s how to get in on the action: Follow us on Twitter (@NCIRL and @NCIRLDigital) Use the hashtag #ncidigitalcert to enter the competitions, ask questions, give us feedback on the course if you’re a past student; retweets to your followers would also be greatly appreciated. To be in with a chance to win the FREE PLACE*, tweet ‘I want to study @NCIRLDigital in Dublin with the hashtag #ncidigitalcert' Grab yourself a cuppa before the party starts and get tweeting from 11am! Here’s what you could win by taking part! Free place on NCI’s level 8 Certificate in Digital Marketing (start date of February 12th only) €75 voucher for Carphone Warehouse for most active tweeter at the party €75 voucher for Carphone Warehouse for best tweet from a previous student €50 voucher for Milanos for best relevant tweet €50 voucher for Milanos for best question about the course Spot prizes of wine, phone covers, screen protectors and more! Read more about our Certificate in Digital Marketing or watch our short video to find out why you should do this course!