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This is lower than the EU average of 15.2%. [32] Ireland's secondary students rank above average in terms of academic performance in both the OECD and EU; having reading literacy, mathematical literacy and scientific literacy test scores better than average. Ireland has the second best reading literacy for teenagers in the EU, after Finland. [32]
Philip R. Lane (Economics and Social Studies, 1989), Chief Economist of the European Central Bank. Previously Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and former holder of the Whately Chair of Political Economy. [2] Michael McMahon (Economics and Social Studies, 1998), Professor of Economics at Oxford University and Fellow of St. Hugh's College. [2]
Entry into third-level is generally very high in Ireland (as it also is in Northern Ireland), and among young adults (those aged 25 to 34), 41.6% of them have attained third-level degrees—the second highest level in the EU after Cyprus, and substantially ahead of the average of 29.1%. [3]
The university's drama society, Dramsoc, was founded in 1914 after the earliest recorded student production in 1904 demonstrated the need for a student-run drama society. [45] Cumann Staire is one of Europe's oldest history societies, and is a member of Comhaltas na gCumann Staire and the International Students of History Association. [46]
University College Dublin (commonly referred to, in Ireland, as UCD; Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 38,417 students, it is Ireland's largest university. [4]
As of March 2013, undocumented students in most States were required to pay the higher out-of-state students' tuition charged at public universities, often between $20,000 and $35,000 at a local public university. In addition, these students were denied federal assistance as they lacked valid Social Security numbers. Because such students often ...
In February 1994, Hines and his Harvard PhD student, Eric M. Rice, published their 1990 National Bureau of Economic Research ("NBER") working paper (No. 3477), in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, on the use of tax havens by U.S. multinationals, which contained a number of important findings.
This is a list of professorships, other notable positions, and public lectures at Trinity College Dublin.. The chairs in French (1776), [1] German (1776), [2] Irish (1840), English Literature (1867) [3] and the precursor (1776) of the current Chair of Spanish (1926) [4] are the oldest in the world in their respective subjects, as some others may be, or thereabouts - the Chair of Civil ...