“I’m convinced that the vast majority of my current students today will do jobs that don’t even exist yet,” says Prof Vittorio Bufacchi of University College Cork’s School of Society, Politics and Ethics. His comments come after the University of Galway asked its academics to reimagine how arts courses are offered amid a drop off … Read more
By the time they turn 18, most athletes will already have spent years at their chosen sports but if college is their chosen path, it can become the time they start to earn some financial benefits for all their efforts. Sports scholarships have long been a feature of the US college path. Now, they are, … Read more
Lasting brain changes can be caused by eating the kind of unhealthy food that has become a “routine part” of early childhood at birthday parties, school celebrations and sporting events, according to a new study. The researchfrom University College Cork (UCC) found that healthy eating shapes lifelong brain health. It highlights that frequent consumption of … Read more
“People cheer, they go crazy. It’s amazing, it’s energising,” says Irishman Diarmuid Early of his recent Excel world championship win in the Hyper X Arena in Las Vegas. The sport involves a lot of crunching, not of bones or abs, but of numbers on an Excel spreadsheet. It is described by the BBC as the … Read more
The McKinsey Global Institute just published an important report – Dependency and Depopulation? Confronting the Consequences of a New Demographic Reality. It details how falling fertility rates and increased longevity are now reshaping global population. The world is sleepwalking towards certain social upheaval precipitated by decades-long falling birth rates, unless we take urgent action. To … Read more
In March 2020, when most of the population, in disbelief and fear, were watching the announcements about a lockdown due to the threat of Covid-19, paediatric consultant Prof Jonathan Hourihane saw a research opportunity. He credits his wife with sparking the idea, as they viewed a TV news report on schools shutting down. She wondered … Read more
Des Bishop spends more time in New York than in Dublin these days, but he wants us to know he is still an Irish comic. It’s only since the pandemic that he’s really been spending more time in the United States, he says as we chat over Zoom. “Because I have an American accent, people … Read more