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DUBLIN HAS FALLEN 17 places in a new survey of the best cities in the world for students.
Having placed 15th last year in the QS Best Student Cities, the capital this year comes in 32nd.
The ranking says that while Dublin has a number of good universities, an excellent student mix and is safe, pollution-free and socially tolerant, the big problem is how affordable it is.
“Its weakest point is affordability, with international tuition fees averaging around US$18,000 (€14,500) per year. But in terms of general living expenses, Dublin may not be as costly as you expect – in Mercer’s 2014 Cost of Living Survey, it comes significantly below many of the other cities featured in the QS Best Student Cities,” the survey says.
The survey says that international students make up 27% of the student population in Dublin, and that “the craic” is worth visiting for.
“Ireland’s capital has become a more multicultural and cosmopolitan place in the past several decades, but at its heart retains a tradition and culture that is all its own.”
That wasn’t enough, though, and Dublin has slipped out of the top 20.
The top 10 cities for students are:
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Information is power. These companies are now more powerful than states.
It concerns me when IBM Computers owns a company like G4S and G4S is bidding to buy Police forces in the Uk.
So what is law.?
Is law a profit making exercise.?
Is policing interested in a community or is that just naive.
Is police only interested in collected intelligence / data , issuing fines, and protecting corporate interest under the guise of health safety and well being.
Well my research to date leads me to say that the police forces of the world are only about protecting vested interests .
good news for Leitrim and Roscommon right?
This Internet is doing my head in !
Well don’t go on it then
I look forward to the day my boss can go to my google+ page and observe me live on the drone cam, stretched out in my back garden with a flagon of linden village and a bag of tayto when I am meant to be at the office.
I’m happier it is in the hands of Google and not Facebook. Google have a culture of making the world better and simpler and where possible providing products for free.
Yeah, they really have our interests at heart, god bless them.
This latest one is just what humanity has been crying out for……
http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/google-patents-tiny-cameras-embedded-in-contact-lenses/
They’re watching YOU !
Google have drones!, there’s no way we’re gonna get more tax off them now.
This will help them find MH370
Google are buying up a lot of tech companys lately, I can’t wait to see what they come out with.
Jesus, Muhammad, and the Buddha were holding a seminar on religion. In turn they asked each other the same question. “Why are most of our people so unhappy with their lives?” They debated, and came to this conclusion. People were seeking the Holy Grail through.. Money, luxury, and affluence. However, this only gives a quick fix before a downer sets in. Then, they were each given a piece of paper on which to write where they thought the Holy Grail was hidden.
When they checked, they each had the same answer.
“The Holy Grail lays hidden inside everybody’s heart. Alas, the last place anyone looks!”
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