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News that student accommodation provider, Hubble Living, would not be going ahead with its planned 30 per cent increase of fees for the 2024/2025 academic year has been welcomed by University of Galway’s Students Union.

While many Leaving Cert students have already submitted their CAO, there will still be time to fill out the change of mind form if they want to choose a different CAO course, but it is important to remember that you do not necessarily need to be tied to a career relating to your degree forever. Nowadays there is great flexibility, and opportunities for people to change their careers. Many students do get stressed trying to pick a CAO course or apprenticeship as they feel they will be locked into this job or career for the rest of their life. There are however many ways in which you can change direction, even straight after your degree or apprenticeship.

Fourth Year in secondary school can be a topic of debate in some households. A school year between the end of Junior Cycle and Fifth Year in which attendence levels are low, out-of-class activaties are a regular occurence, study goes completely out the window and homework is practically nonexistent, may be seen to some as superfluous at best and a waste of time at worst.

Just under half of Galway city primary schools were fully subscribed or over-subscribed last year, according to unpublished government figures, although significant capacity remains.

Athlone Community College students were recently presented with an award to mark their achievement of winning the secondary school category at the 2023 Arcadia Creative Climate Awards.

Three distinguished ambassadors from the 'Lublin Triangle'—a regional alliance comprising Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania—visited Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Athlone Campus, recently to discuss the economic, social, and political future of Europe in the context Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has called on the Government to address the delays in school capital projects within the constituency immediately.

University of Galway has announced the appointment of Monica Crump as University Librarian. Ms Crump becomes the 12th Librarian in the University’s history dating back to 1845.

Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre for Software, launched a €3.5 million postdoctoral fellowship programme which will recruit 19 world-class researchers to universities across Ireland.

Sinn Féin TD Mairéad Farrell has called on government to address the delays in school capital projects in Galway immediately.