Print media is struggling right now. Its position is like that of an elder lion that has led its pride for years but now faces the challenge of a younger,…
The scintillating, yet sobering, amateur video footage which surfaced a few weeks back of giant balls of light streak across the clear Russian sky made a few things all too…
Predicting public trends can be like trying to read the future by gazing at the stars. There is something almost illogical behind much of our behaviour, as if idiosyncrasy and…
Are you considering a part time course in 2013 The next Which Course Expo takes place on January 16th and 17th in the Mansion House’s Round Room, and will feature…
December is always a two-edged blade: we spend most of it celebrating the bedlam of Christmas, and a lot more time than we’d like complaining about the burdens of the…
College graduations have abounded over the past month or so and many of us will have seen friends or relatives proudly don the gown and collect their certs. Despite the…
After numerous talks, workshops, readings and walking tours, the Dublin Book Festival finally comes to a close this Sunday. For those of you whose creative sparks may have been set…
James Bond seems to be everywhere these days. He has stormed the cinemas, brushing aside competitors like the bully who’s hit puberty long before everyone else on the schoolyard. Whole…
When a character in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises is asked how he became bankrupt, he replies ‘Gradually, then suddenly’. The same can be said of how we experience…
With the stateside elections now just around the corner, media coverage of the presidential race – on both sides of the Atlantic – has begun to reach fever pitch. As…
In times of economic instability, many people feel it their duty to forego the pleasurable in favour of the necessary. This affects course choices as much as anything else: pursuing…
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. (Henry Adams) Most of us will be willing to testify to the inherent value of education, and rightly…
Did you know that today (September 26th) is the European Day of Languages No For shame. It involves events all over the continent -from children’s TV shows to conferences –…