[…]scheme may help students and families to cope with the financial burden placed on them by an ever-increasing Student Contribution Charge (SCC – currently €2,250). People who avail of the loan scheme will not have to pay the SCC in one or two large instalments per year, but instead will pay BOI €100 per month at a discounted rate of interest. However, USI has some grave concerns about the short-term and long-term effects of the scheme. First, from our consultation with Students’ Unions around the country, it is clear that only a minority of them were properly consulted before their […]
[…]from the Constitution in order to protect women’s safety, health and wellbeing. In the coming months, USI will also be registering thousands of students to vote ahead of the proposed date of May 25th. Speaking about the launch, USI President Michael Kerrigan said, “Students are behind this campaign, and are willing to show compassion by voting ‘Yes’ so people can make personal and private decisions without the fear of being charged as criminals. We must remove the Eighth Amendment, and we must accommodate students to vote. Students are overwhelmingly in favour of changing our restrictive abortion laws to become a […]
[…]movement. Students voted as follows: Yes: 2,468 No: 231 Resulting in a 91.4% support for remaining inside the national union. In addition, UCCSU students voted on a resolution to support Marriage Equality as follows: Yes: 2,501 No: 120 Resulting in a 95.42% support for Marriage Equality. Speaking after the result was announced, USI President Laura Harmon, herself a UCC graduate, thanked the campaign team and the students of UCC. “This result vindicates the work that a growing and strengthening student movement is doing. It shows that students back USI’s campaigns on education and the fight for a more equal Ireland […]
[…]educated, have your celebrations end well, not in A and E or worse.” Top tips: Get educated and informed. Don’t take any unknown substances. Look out for yourself and your friends. Check out Spunout.ie and Drugs.ie for information on drugs and their effects. For further information contact USI Communications and Research Executive Gráinne O Reilly on […]
[…]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 gambling. The Labour Party bill, launched by Senator Mark Wall, is seeking to disconnect sport and other entertainment from gambling by preventing gambling from being advertised on television and online. USI supports this aim and says action is badly needed in this area, as many people – particularly young people who have grown up with such advertising constantly shown in association with sporting events – […]
