NCI Blog

Frances Sheridan, computing lecturer at National College of Ireland, teaches Introductory Computer Programming to first year students. Her innovative teaching approach earned her the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching last year.

National College of Ireland has won the Excellence in Employability Award in the AHECS Employment and Engagement Awards 2013, presented at the gradireland Graduate Recruitment Awards last night. The award, given by the Association of Higher Education Career Services, was given for NCI’s work in “Rethinking, reskilling, reinventing – dealing with the challenge of unemployment and career change in challenging times.”

Vice Dean of the School of Business at NCI, Colin Whitston, has contributed to a new book ‘A Capital In Conflict: Dublin City and the 1913 Lockout’ which has been published by Dublin City Council to mark the Decade of Commemorations 1913 – 1923. The book features a number of essays covering a wide range of topics relating to the Lockout and contextualising it, including the role of women and children; the Gaelic revival; the proposal for a Bridge Gallery to house the Lane collection of pictures; housing, public health and medicine. The international context is supplied by Mr. Whitston.