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Ireland’s first all-island prison education toolkit launched
University College Cork, Cork Prison, Queen’s University Belfast and Hydebank Wood Secure College launch prison education toolkit to break barriers across higher education and justice systems. The toolkit aims to challenge stigma associated with the criminal justice system while promoting more inclusive pathways to education, learning and social justice. Lived experience of criminal justice and injustice is central to the toolkit, ensuring perspectives that have historically been excluded from policy, practice and public discourse are valued.
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27 Apr 2026
UCC launches Future Humanities Institute
Future Humanities Institute to address the human dimensions of today’s most urgent global challenges. New institute to drive collaboration across arts, culture, social sciences, environmental sciences and technology. Humanities-led research aims to shape policy and support a more equitable and sustainable future.
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New research highlights Irish Traveller experiences of racialised inequalities in education
Urgent action is needed to address persistent barriers facing Traveller students in Irish schools, a new report finds. Discrimination, exclusion and inequalities remain embedded within the education system in Ireland. The report makes recommendations for policy-makers, schools and the wider education system to tackle barriers faced by Irish Travellers.
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24 Apr 2026
New exhibition explores the story behind the printing of the 1916 Proclamation
A new exhibition at University College Cork (UCC) shines a light on the story behind one of Ireland’s most iconic documents, focusing not on its words, but on the people who made its existence possible.
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