Just got notice that there are some places available on this masters, for details follow the links below
MSc European Employment Studies at Trinity College Dublin
There are a few places left on the MSc European Employment Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Applications will be accepted until 31 July 2010.
For further information including course contents, admission […]
Busy week next week as the universities (around Dublin, Ireland) host events which address aspects of the current crisis. Follow the links below for the full agendas and list of speakers. All are public events (though they usually ask you to register before hand so they have a sense of numbers)
1. LIBERALISM IN CRISIS: US, […]
… launching the new MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism. More details here. Various fringethoughts writers, friends and family may appear in greater or lesser degrees of cognito. Or not …
Blog readers very welcome, in any case!
I’ve just been spending a depressing hour searching the Irish left blogosphere for serious comments on the public sector pay “deal” (the inverted commas because it’s by no means clear that it will pass ballots and work as a deal). Let’s summarise the most important points:
- Massive pay cuts are to remain unless and until […]
An article in the Irish Times about Ireland’s apparently poor standards of education contains a fascinating insight into the ways in which the Irish business elite set the political agenda. According to the article, Google Ireland’s vice president convened a meeting with Education Minister Batt O’Keefe and several other tech executives where they basically scolded […]
Oisin sent around his Amazon wish list, a fine list of books that I wish I not only owned, but also had read and crucially remembered. One of the things on the list is Charles Tilly’s “Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons”, but his friends can save themselves a bit of money by downloading this […]
Aileen
I love going to Sociology conferences, I get a buzz from hearing new ideas (even if they have nothing to do with my actual work). Yet, half way through the American Association of Sociology Annual Conference, I sat on my hotel bed drinking a cold beer, and thought to myself ‘I hate this conference, I’m […]
I’ve only just heard the news that Giovanni Arrighi, who spoke in Dublin last year, died in June. A friend passed on this link to his memorial site and to an interview on his life and work conducted by David Harvey. For those of you going to the American Sociological Association conference this year, there […]
I hoping the Irish Government doesn’t end up giving my wages to some banker, and I’m suspicious that the heat was only turned on yesterday because the university is trying to save a bit of cash - after all the 3% cuts demanded have to come from somewhere. Rumour has it that in UCD they […]
