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Ireland's Erasmus Plus Growth Is A Funding Opportunity Education Leaders Are Missing
Léargas's 2025 Annual Report shows Irish participation in Erasmus+ has more than tripled since 2021, with growth continuing into 2025. Discover what the scale-up means for schools, training providers and higher education leaders.
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences wins Best Erasmus Programme at the Education Awards 2026
In a rewind to the Education Awards 2026 earlier this year, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences took home the Best Erasmus Programme award, recognised for a pioneering Global North-South collaboration with Stellenbosch University that repositioned students as co-creators, delivered the world's first research course in Global Surgery, and produced strong evidence of learner satisfaction and best practice across all assessed areas. The win sets a compelling benchmark for Erasmus excellence in Irish higher education, raising the standard of equitable collaboration, pedagogical innovation, and measurable academic impact that programmes will look to match when the 2027 awards cycle opens.
Six Irish Universities Are Climbing the World Rankings This Year
The QS World University Rankings 2027 show six of Ireland's eight universities climbing the global table this year. This commentary examines what the results mean for Irish higher education leadership and industry partnerships.
China Chunlai acquires Dublin Business School for $127.5 million as Chinese operators seek EU higher education assets
Ireland's rapid growth as an international student destination has made its private colleges acquisition targets, and China Chunlai's $127.5 million bet on DBS is its first move outside China.
Axis Education acquires stake in Studyclix to convert Ireland's largest second-level edtech user base into a third-level funnel
A bootstrapped Sligo edtech platform with 224,000 users joining a Barry-backed education group gives Axis a digital funnel ten times its current student headcount.
AFTA and two credit unions create a pilot training loan scheme to break the €100,000 access barrier
A framework agreement between a Cork flight academy and two credit unions is a small announcement, but the finance gap it targets has been limiting Irish aviation's pipeline of trained pilots for a decade.
Seafish secures £1.4 million training grant as UK seafood sector faces workforce contraction
A levy-funded public body operating below its required income threshold is supplementing its budget with government grants, and extending onshore processor training for the first time reveals where the sector's workforce pressure is now most acute.
PLT Training secures PASMA accreditation to capture the scaffolding sector's working-at-height compliance spend
Adding scaffold tower accreditation to existing IPAF certification gives PLT Training single-provider coverage of the two major regulated categories of working at height, the procurement outcome that multi-trade contractors are actively looking for.
University of Galway wins Best Collaboration Award – Domestic (Public Good, Culture & Social Impact) at the Education Awards 2026
As a recall to the Education Awards 2026, University of Galway took home the Best Collaboration Award – Domestic (Public Good, Culture & Social Impact), recognised earlier this year for the Empathy Studio, a research-led initiative that built a sustainable co-creation model with external organisations and lived-experience contributors to embed empathy across curriculum and industry partnerships at significant scale. The win sets a compelling benchmark for collaborative practice in Irish higher education, demonstrating the standard of depth, coherence, and measurable social impact that future entrants in the category for the 2027 cycle will be expected to deliver.
ClassCover targets 2,000 Irish schools with substitute teacher booking platform in first European market entry
ClassCover is investing €3 million in Ireland, its first market outside Australia. Ireland's schools still rely on WhatsApp groups and phone calls to source substitute cover, the same informal workflow ClassCover replaced across 5,000 Australian schools.
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