News

May 2020

• Social Distancing with Sight Loss: Tina Lowe speaks to Ireland AM about the challenges for people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Making a Museum for Everyone: MoLI and UCD Access and Lifelong Learning mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2020 with a programme focussing on how a new museum based in historic buildings – such as the Museum of Literature Ireland – can create an inclusive visitor experience with accessibility in mind.

January 2020

• The Sunday Independent "Making University Accessible for All" - Dr Anna Kelly, Director of Access & Lifelong Learning

November 2019

• "University for ALL (Access and Lifelong Learning) captures UCD’s outreach and support activities for underrepresented groups, and more than one in four UCD undergraduates are access students" - Sunday Times Article on UCD as "Irish University of the Year 2020"

October 2019

• "Winning fellowship was happiest day, says new barrister" - UCD graduate and Denham Fellowship recipient, Jamie O’Gorman

September 2019

• "I’m dyslexic. Will I be able to cope in college?" - Students with additional learning needs can get specialist support at third level

August 2019

• 13 Colleges on What First Years Can Expect and What Sets Them Apart: UCD's ALL Student Welcome
• 'You might have 25 people in the class and 25 different nationalities, it was fascinating' - Aisling O'Connell, UCD ALL Student
• "UCD is Exemplary" - Professor Phil Scraton on UCD's "Cothrom na Féinne Scholarships

July 2019

• Access is everyone’s business: Disabled students’ experiences in higher education

June 2019

• FutureYou Summer School
• Creative Arts Summer School
• "Jade Awarded Scholarship from UCD" - Echo

May 2019

• UCD's Annual Access Symposium, 30th May 2019
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day

February 2019

• Student literacy levels: 'It is almost as if they are word blind (The Irish Times)

January 2019

• Is Ireland sending too many students to third level? (RTE One, Today with Sean O'Rourke)

November 2018

• Path to higher education for everyone in Waterford no matter what their background at University College Dublin (Waterford Live)
• Listen back to our Access & Lifelong Learning students on Drivetime (02:00:41)

May 2018

• Former Access Student Harry Austin leads the charge in the fight against plastic
• Global Accessibility Awareness Day - Lunch & Learn Sessions‌, 17th May 2018

April 2018

• Eight UCD Students were awarded “1916 Leaders and Learners” Bursaries