Category: Direct Provision

Students’ deportation order and hunger strike ‘explicitly demonstrate why the Direct Provision system must be ended’

by PR Comms | Jul 30, 2020 | Campaigns, Direct Provision, Equality, Featured, RELEASES, USI News | 0 |

The Union of Students in Ireland expresses its support and solidarity to two Athlone Institute of Technology students living in Direct Provision who are facing deportation in 35 days and reiterates its calls for an urgent end to...

Vulnerable students should be housed in empty accommodation

by PR Comms | Apr 17, 2020 | Accommodation, Direct Provision, Featured, Housing, RELEASES, USI News | 0 |

Vacant Purpose-Built Student Accommodation should be used to ease stress on vulnerable students who are not in appropriate accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Union of Students in Ireland said today. The USI says the...