[…]and financial difficulties facing the students of today have reached breaking point for many, and my USI Officerboard team for 2013/14 will be relentless in seeking to ensure no further hardship is enforced on those most vulnerable”. -ENDS- For more information contact USI General Manager, Ben Archibald on 01-9052091 or email […]
[…]will receive 50% of the profit made from this initiative.” Conor Loughran, LGBT officer for NUS-USI said: “Share the gLove is an exciting and important development that will hopefully emphasise the importance of LGBT+ rights and also raise funding for charities too. “It is so important that society supports LGBT+ rights to show that everyone is a valued member of society, and to show that people understand the need to protect LGBT+ rights. “The Out in Sport NUS LGBT student survey showed that 20.5 per cent of LGBT students who participate in sports who are not out, are worried it […]
[…]Day Studies find that 8 out of 10 suicides are men (80%) Today, the Union of Students in Ireland and the 3ts have joined forces in suicide prevention and positive mental health initiative ‘Share the Load’ in IT Sligo. The initiative includes a public display of 105 backpacks, representing the average number of people of college-going age who die by suicide in Ireland each year. ‘Share the Load’ encourages conversation about the impact of suicide in colleges in addition to urging students to connect with the many mental health supports provided both on and off campus. USI Vice President for […]
The USI website gets quite a bit of traffic – we pull in around 94% of our viewers from Ireland and the UK (mostly from Northern Ireland). We’re fairly extensively linked to and we attract an enormous amount of spam. All of this makes developing and managing the site somewhat complex – but rewarding when viewership increases due to changes to the site. We’re already seeing some small evidence of that today. The new design aims to put the stories we think will interest the rest of the world in our work – we have an external readership focus for 80% […]
[…]drinkaware.ie The Independent 25/11/13 Students protest over third-level cutbacks RTE 01/10/13 USI News on […]
