Graduate salary expectations, #Snag19, Tinder, philosophy and Brexit

News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers

Young teachers earn most within months of leaving college while arts graduates take in the least, a survey of more than 29,000 recent third-level graduates has found. Carl O'Brien reports.

Linda Ervine started learning Irish eight years ago. Unlike the majority of people on this island, she didn't learn it at school and it seemed alien to her at first. Read here how Tracy Clifford, Linda Ervine and Michael Darragh MacAuley have been named as Seachtain na Gaeilge ambassadors.

After the soaring cost of accommodation, the hefty fees and hard academic slog, you might be forgiven for wondering whether it really pays off to have a higher standard of education? Read more here.

In a recent High Court decision, Mr Justice Richard Humphreys vindicated a citizen's right to access higher education and vocational training, write Judith Harford and Brian Fleming.

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In the name of anxiety-inducing attempts at finding true love, there might be no better place to begin than with the app that the Huffington Post once called "cocaine for the mind." NUI Galway student Frank Lanigan's beginner's guide to Tinder.

The idea of philosophy becoming a core discipline in the Irish education system once seemed like a pipe dream,writes Joe Humphreys.

A crash-out Brexit could place significant pressure on the third-level education system as thousands of Irish students might have to study at home rather than in the UK, the Oireachtas education committee has heard. Read more here.

Student competitors from Trinity College Dublin and the Solicitors Apprentices Debating Society of Ireland secured places in the final of The Irish Times Debate 2018-2019 following a hotly contested competition in UCD. Read the report here.

The second semi-final of The Irish Times Debate 2018-19 was an intensely competitive affair, as UCD'S law society team won out on a night when students debate whether to ban imports from Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.Cailean Coffey reports.