Internet censorship at Ballyfermot college has expanded in the last month, even restricting access to search engine Yahoo.
It caused students problems accessing email and search services of the US company with offices in
Ireland, even thought the Ballyfermot Post was previously told that useful sites would be unblocked in “a matter of two seconds”. Peter Burke, [...]

With Ballyfermot college’s internet censorship expanded once again, even if access to Yahoo was only restricted  for around a week, we find our selves saying again:
The blocks have no place in a modern third level education establishment, and such is even more so the case for a media focused college.
Blocking websites could be appropriated for secondary schools, but treating third [...]

University Collage Cork is to hold a
journalism conference next month which will ask if newspapers are on
their last leg and in danger of being replaced by new media.
The event will include speakers from newspapers and new media.
Organised by the UCC Journalism Society, the second annual National Journalism Conference is set to run on from 9.30am [...]

A lecturer at a UK university has banned her students from using
Google and Wikipedia, saying students were relying on the websites too
much and dubbing the trend as “the University of Google”.
Professor Tara Brabazon (49) restricted her students to a strict
reading list, saying: “I ban my students from using Google, Wikipedia
and other websites
like that. I give [...]