[…]in collaboration with the relevant Irish language organisations and teachers’ unions, teacher-training colleges, between students, teachers, and others, to publish a collaborative report that would set out a progressive, comprehensive, and multilateral strategy regarding the teaching of Irish at primary and post primary level. USI spoke about the long-term failures surrounding the teaching of Irish at primary and post primary level, as well as he lack of a united and collaborative effort to find a solution to these failures. Congress condemned the impact that this has had, in the absence of clearly defined policy that would improve the teaching […]
[…]this Christmas Athlone I.T. Co Westmeath: The Union of Students in Ireland has teamed up with brain injury specialists Acquired Brain Injury Ireland to launch their education and prevention ‘Mind Your Head’ Christmas Campaign. Acquired Brain Injury Ireland and the USI are appealing to people to take precaution this year and reduce the number of brain injuries being suffered throughout the Christmas period. Approximately 13,000 people acquire a head injury in Ireland each year, drastically changing their life thereafter. With an increase in unprovoked assaults, alcohol related falls and road traffic accidents following increased speed, acquired brain injury is vastly becoming […]
[…]after the election, Cahill said: “In 2018-2019, students will be a force to be reckoned with in the battle ongoing about the future and current funding of higher level education in Ireland. It’s time the Oireachtas reveal which model they recommend before our entire educational landscape collapses. With the Technological Universities enshrined into law, we must protect Students’ Unions and their ethos by working closely with allies in other unions. At all levels of higher education, we must ensure students are at the centre of decision making, and we must resist absolutely the commodification of education in Ireland. “The housing […]
[…]in Ireland have been campaigning on these issues, year on year consistently and it is disappointing to find that the Ministers in charge of the education system in Ireland have not yet learned just how severe the situation at hand has gotten. The Union of Students in Ireland has developed a multi-pronged approach to place pressure on the Government in the coming months, ahead of the Budget. We will be engaging with local elected representatives, TD’s and Senators in the coming months ahead of an action on the streets of Dublin in early October. USI calls on both students and […]
