For this week's paper review, Shane Coleman was joined by Dr Ciara Kelly and Ian O'Doherty of the Irish Independent.

They started by discussing today's Sunday Business Post report that some universities are leaving places empty on courses for fear the number of CAO points required for entry would be reduced otherwise.

Ciara observed, "for them to leave their course places unfilled makes no sense to the college at all - because they're missing out themselves and obviously the students are missing out.

"There are various academics sitting in ivory towers saying 'my course is not a 495 course, it's a 500 course'. And that's all I can put it down to - it's some form of academic snobbery," she added.

Ian argued, "on the one hand we want our universities to be more prestigious, we want them to be attracting international students. So the idea of 'manipulating' the admissions to certain prestigious courses would certainly seem to make sense if it makes it more elite".

However he added, "you have to factor in the human equation... The whole point of working hard is that there's a reward at the end of it... If you do your best, you get through, and then you're refused... that's a really unfortunate life lesson to learn, at a really bad time to be learning it".

There was a lot of coverage of the migrant crisis across today's papers, with Ian suggesting the BBC decision to broadcast an episode of Songs of Praise was "brilliant by the BBC... if you're a religious programme, this is what religious programmes are meant to be doing". However Ian and Ciara disagreed strongly on the effectiveness of some potential ways to help deal with the crisis.

Other stories covered included the latest on Donald Trump's ever-controversial presidential bid, and the 'row' between Vanity Fair and Tinder.

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