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Students from Mary Immaculate College (MIC) were recognised at the Board of Irish College Societies (BICS) Awards in Sligo, where the Mary Immaculate Dramatic Arts Society (MIDAS), took home the award for ‘Best Society (Cultural)’. Held on 10 April at the Clayton Hotel, Sligo, the latest BICS award marked another national recognition for MIDAS as MIC students previously brought home the ‘Best Society’ award on five separate occasions. The award also comes in the same month that MIDAS marked its 25-year anniversary with a sold-out run of Legally Blonde at the Lime Tree Theatre in early April.

The 12th annual Limerick Lifelong Learning Festival kicks off next week and Mary Immaculate College (MIC) is proud to support learning for all ages by hosting events as part of the festival’s packed schedule.  Running from Monday 23 to Sunday 29 May, this year’s festival focuses around a central theme of ‘Learn Something New in 2022’, and includes a blend of in-person, online and hybrid events. The festival was launched with a special event at Kilmallock Library recently where first-class students from Scoil Mocheallóg, Killmalock attended a workshop hosted by MIC’s Department of Enterprise and Community Engagement.

The aim of the ‘MIC Teaching for Inclusion Seminar Series’ is support and share knowledge with the wider teaching community to help with opportunities to support an ethos and practice diversity, inclusion and integration in the classroom and schools.

Mary Immaculate College (MIC) has teamed up with Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)’s ADAPT Centre to develop free course materials to help schools embrace and manage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the ethics surrounding its use. The Technology in my Life (TimL) project has been developed to cater specifically to primary schools and aims to provide educators with the necessary tools and insights to guide pupils in understanding the ethical dimensions of AI in our increasingly digital world.

At a National Forum Associates Assembly in Mary Immaculate College (MIC) today (16 September), Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Patrick O'Donovan TD, has today announced a €5m funding allocation as part of the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement (SATLE) initiative, administered by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) and its National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. The €5m fund will build on existing SATLE priorities, providing higher education institutions with the resources to support a long-term strategic approach, focusing on the key priority areas of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), digital transformation, and the promotion of academic integrity.

MIC & the LINC Programme Illuminate Mental Health Conversations with 2024 Green Ribbon Campaign Mary Immaculate College (MIC) and the Leadership for INClusion in the Early Years (LINC) Programme are proud to continue their support for the See Change Green Ribbon Campaign, an initiative dedicated to raising awareness and fostering open conversations about mental health across Ireland.

Mary Immaculate College (MIC) and Tipperary Camogie are delighted to announce a five-year partnership which will see the county side use MIC’s Thurles campus as their full-time training ground. The exciting collaboration will see the Premier’s Senior, Junior, Minor and U16A Championship teams training weekly at the Thurles campus, bringing to an end the practice of moving the location of training sessions to suit availability of facilities.