Ciar McCormick |Deputy Opinion Editor In the information age we live in, the university has become the centre of the knowledge economy, making it a more powerful institution than ever before. In many cities and regions the university has become a social, cultural, and economic force that shapes a huge number of lives and forms of labour. Galway city, for instance, benefits greatly from the prosperity that its National University brings to the area. The move to combine DIT’s facilities on a new campus is reported to reduce crucial economic activity in the pubs, coffee shops and sandwich bars around Aungier, Bolton, and Kevin Streets, … Continue reading The University in Society