Feb 19, 2021 | Academic Affairs, Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
Government must step in and work to reduce the cost of Gaeltacht placement for student teachers in private colleges, according to the Union of Students in Ireland. No student should be charged an extra fee to complete a mandatory and integral part of their college...
Feb 17, 2021 | Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
Union of Students in Ireland statement 17.02.21 The Union of Students in Ireland supports the bill launched today which seeks to ban gambling advertising, and the union is calling on the Government to act on its Programme for Government commitments in relation to...
Feb 12, 2021 | Academic Affairs, Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
Today, USI and Students’ Unions who represent Social Care students have collectively written to CORU, the Ministers for Further and Higher Education; Health; and Social Protection, Quality and Qualifications Ireland and the Higher Education Institutions urging them to...
Jan 29, 2021 | Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
Today’s announcement of extra Government funding to increase the postgraduate stipends of Irish Research Council researchers is welcomed by the Union of Students in Ireland as one of the steps needed to address the unacceptable precarious working conditions of...
Jan 29, 2021 | Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
The Union of Students in Ireland is disappointed at the Department of Health’s decision last night to extend the current two-week suspension of nursing and midwifery student placements by a further week. USI is particularly concerned by the lack of clarity being...
Dec 16, 2020 | Academic Affairs, Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
The Union of Students in Ireland this afternoon (December 16) staged a socially distanced demonstration at Leinster House calling on TDs to sign its Education for All pledge and highlighting the urgent need for action in key areas of higher education funding and...
