Breakthrough in teleservices. They are very welcome members of our academic community and their presence ensures that a variety of cultural influences exist on campus. UCD on its part arranges a number of functions specifically for these students who come to us from abroad, both on arrival in September and at Christmas time. There is also in place an International Office and an Overseas Students' Officer to provide help and guidance to our international visitors. Of course student mobility is not a one-way process.
Irish students spend part of their degree programme at an overseas university.
This plays an important role as such students are prepared for careers in the international business community if they chose to follow such a path. Such movement of students fits in very well with Newman's idea of a university which he describes as 'a place of concourse, whether students come from every quarter for every kind of knowledge'. Published by the Office of Public Affairs, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.