The Irish Times – Thursday, Jul 12, 2012

SEÁN FLYNN, Education Editor

IN A poignant development, online preparation provider Hibernia College is to offer grade courses in computing and business in organisation with a University of London that is one of a world’s top-ranked universities.

Students will compensate €4,980 for a undergraduate grade courses that will be awarded by a University of London. The university has several basic colleges, including a London School of Economic and University College London.

The Hibernia beginning – that has already lerned 4,000 primary teachers – will exam a flourishing marketplace for private third-level preparation in a Republic.

Hibernia executive Seán Rowland says a arch advantage for students is that they can benefit a profitable grade from a top-ranked college but incurring accommodation, transport and other costs.

While a college hopes to enrol about 250 students in a initial year of a programme, some observers trust that tyro direct for a courses could boost dramatically over a subsequent 5 years.

More students could opt for some-more flexible, online courses as a tyro grant price for third-level colleges is set to arise to €3,000 by 2015.

There is also regard in some university circles that students here competence see grade courses charity by top-ranked general colleges as some-more appealing than those from underfunded Irish institutes.

The three-year grade programmes on offer include: a B.Sc in Creative Computing; a B.Sc in Computing and Information Systems; a B.Sc in Management and a B.Sc in Business. A one-year diploma march in government for graduates is also available.

Hibernia is also charity 20 scholarships on a grade programmes to sports people from Gaelic games, rugby, soccer and tennis in Ireland. Yesterday’s launch was attended by several distinguished sports stars including rugby general Tommy Bowe and Dublin footballer Bernard Brogan.

Hibernia, that recently distinguished a 10th anniversary, charges graduates about €9,000 for a postgraduate primary training course. Last year, it generated sum increase of tighten to €4 million; it is now a heading provider of primary teachers.

In a new courses, students will have entrance to a personal educational adviser, live online tutorials and an online collaborative space for operative with other students and tutors.

There will also be informal on-site tutorials via a nation to promote students who wish to sojourn during home.

The preference to concede Hibernia to yield primary clergyman training in 2003 unleashed a charge of criticism from a determined teacher-training colleges and their students who indicted Hibernia of delivering “yellow-pack” teachers.

In new years, Hibernia’s participation has turn most reduction argumentative amid clever feedback from propagandize principals about a peculiarity of Hibernia graduates.

The college has also allocated high-profile educational total to a board.

Its stream authority is Dr Don Thornhill, a former conduct of a Higher Education Authority.

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March 13, 2012
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Computerworld UK
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The second annual UK Cyber Security Challenge has been won by Cambridge University tyro Jonathan Millican, 19, who emerged as a best all-rounder from a prestigious GCHQ-backed competition.

After several tough rounds over a final 6 months, a final Masterclass pitted 30 finalists opposite one another in hurdles including fortifying an organization opposite a unnatural cyberattack.

Computer scholarship undergraduate Millican was awarded a tip mark with an RAF engineer, Russ Taylor, a tighten second.

Sponsored and judged by HP, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BT, QinetiQ and Cassidian and corroborated GCHQ itself, Millican wins sponsorship to do a Masters grade during educational tech hotspot, Royal Holloway, University of London.

The foe is seen as one approach to pull courtesy to a vital confidence problem of new years, namely a miss of skilled, lerned experts operative in critical tools of a open zone in particular. Until recently, a problem has tended to be seen as simply as a miss in a underlying record rather that a practitioners.

Last year’s foe was won by Wakefield postman Dan Summers, subsequently offering a pursuit for a Royal Mail’s infosec team.

“It is by initiatives such as this that organisations, be they in a open or private sector, can continue to rise and say a heading corner in cyberspace by being means to partisan a right people with a right skills,” pronounced GCHQ executive ubiquitous for cyber security, Jonathan Hoyle.

Article source: http://www.csoonline.com/article/702033/cambridge-university-teen-wins-gchq-hacking-contest