[…]5:30pm and 7pm outside the Egyptian embassy, to stand in solidarity with Ibrahim and his family, and to urge the Irish government to increase the pressure on Egyptian authorities and help bring Ibrahim […]
[…]second option is maintaining the current registration fee and increasing state investment to compliment the shortfall in higher education funding. The Union of Students in Ireland said this second option would be casually casting aside the recent research and surveys conducted that heavily suggest students are already deterred by the registration fee, already at breaking point, and already steeped in debt and anxieties because of the cost of education. USI surveyed over 870 students across Ireland and found that 87% of students fear having to drop out of college because of the cost of education. 58.1% of students miss meals […]
[…]USI is encouraging students to vote ‘No’ to the abolition of the Seanad, to provide a mandate for real and meaningful political reform. USI’s reform proposals can be found in the ‘Free Our Voice’ policy paper launched last week. Proposals include an emigrant panel to give a Seanad vote to the thousands who have left our shores and a voter for every third-level student or graduate. The positive response to the voter registration drive even in its infancy means that a projected 80,000 students will sign up to SERD by next year’s local and European elections, representing thousands of votes in every […]
[…]supporting Union of Students in Ireland’s work to mobilise the landlords to free up the unused spaces in their households. You can download the entire submission below […]
Nominations re-open Nominations for the position of VP Welfare have reopened today, Tuesday 25th February, 2014. Nominations must be submitted prior to 5.30pm on Friday 7th March 2014. Candidates must be nominated by two member organisations which are in benefit. Nominations must be presented on the headed paper of the member organisation and signed by the President of the member organisation. Nominations may be submitted by bemailing a scanned copy of the nominations to elections@usi.ie or by facsimile to +353 (1) 447 5081 marked for the attention of Elections Committee. Candidates are required to submit documentation proving their membership of USI prior to the close […]
