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College costs in Ireland rarely end with the fee. Rent has to be paid, books bought and travel covered week after week, and for many families it all adds up before the first lecture.  Student grants are there to ease some of that, but the support comes from several places and each one has its…

Preparing for your exams may prove to be quite challenging since even after investing many hours in your textbooks, you may forget most of what you studied. Even when starting with the best intentions, distractions, procrastination, and learning material that you haven’t understood are possible outcomes. However, the problem may not be about your efforts….

You might find out by searching on the web that the inventor of homework is said to be Roberto Nevilis, an Italian teacher who was tired of his students and decided to make them do work at home in 1905 as punishment. However, this story has no basis in reality. The real answer is not…

You may have scrolled past a green ribbon post on 10th October and kept going. Most of us have done that, but that quiet little graphic symbolises one of the few days each year when millions of people talk about something they normally whisper. It is worth asking how events like World Mental Health Day…

If you ever wonder which aspects of a degree seem the most challenging for students, the answer is certainly not the exams. It is the final year projects that demand a lot of attention and research at the same time. It is easy to make a final year project manageable if you see research and…

A personal essay writing becomes interesting when it is written with a clear voice about a real experience that reflects on and details it. A better approach is not simply to talk about what happened, but to demonstrate the importance of the experience and what it affected.  Personal essays are used for university applications, scholarships,…

Plenty of people will tell you that a thesis is for master’s students and a dissertation is for PhDs. However, some may argue the opposite. The problem lies in the fact that both of these statements may be right, and there are indeed differences in the terms in different parts of the globe. What one…

Starting university in Ireland can involve more than simply turning up for lectures when the semester begins. Students need to keep track of registration, teaching periods, study weeks, examinations, holidays, and assessment deadlines. The exact dates vary between universities and courses, but understanding the general structure makes the academic year much easier to plan. Whether…