[…]least 2 – 3 alcohol free days per week. This is in line with the low risk weekly guidelines – 17 standard drinks for men, 11 standard drinks for women. Stay hydrated by having a water or other non-alcoholic drink as every second drink Eat well before you drink and don’t consume alcohol on an empty stomach Measure your drinks using a shot glass or egg cup, don’t pour straight from the bottle Avoid buying alcohol in bulk and choose low-alcohol or alcohol-free drinks Prepare for peer pressure. Try to tell your friends you usually drink with about your plans […]
[…]with a message about mental health and the counselling supports available to you during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you need someone to talk […]
[…]Students in Ireland to postgraduate students for studying and staying connected during the COVID-19 […]
[…]health workers, student nurses have to use the general public HSE line to get tested for COVID-19. We reiterate GPs and frontline health workers’ calls for a specific line of testing to be introduced for student nurses and other health workers so that they don’t have to be out of work unnecessarily while waiting to be tested. “We are also calling for student nurses, and other healthcare workers, to get extra paid sick leave if they contract COVID-19. At the moment, without instruction on this, supernumerary students have no sick leave and internship students will have to use their general sick leave […]
Submission to the Department of Justice and Equality on the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989 Download location: https://usi.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Hate-Speech-submission-.docx Hate Speech […]
[…]Turn the thermostat for your living areas down to 20°C living areas and hallways and bedrooms to 15-18°C to save up to 10% on your energy bills per year. Make sure you separate your recyclables; recycling an aluminium container saves 95% of the energy taken to make a new one and a tonne of recycled paper saves 17 trees! Get your recycling in order! Don’t leave the fridge door open for too long while getting food. For every 10–20 seconds the door is open it takes 45 minutes for the fridge to cool down to its original temperature. Limit Midnight Snacking! By […]
Minister Bruton Launches USI 21 Day Challenge with a Smart Brew – The average Irish person consumes 1,460 cups of tea per year- make sure you always boil just the amount of water you need SSE Airtricity and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) have partnered up to challenge students to make better environmental actions over the next 21 days. Richard Bruton, T.D., Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment was in attendance to help Ireland’s students go green by taking part in a special ‘green’ challenge at the DCU campus. The three-week event also marks the beginning of […]
The Union of Students in Ireland have today launched the 2019 / 2020 ‘Generation Vote’ campaign, encouraging all students to register to vote ahead of a possible General Election and Referendum. The Union of Students in Ireland are encouraging students to register to vote now, using the RFA form available on www.checktheregister.ie. Many students transferring from second to third level education have not yet registered to vote, USI alongside Students’ Unions around the country will be running voter registration drives all year to ensure students are on the register ahead of a possible General Election and Referendum USI […]
[…]Call for Reviewers To apply please complete the form found here: National Student QA Reviewer’s Pool Application For further information contact academicaffairs@usi.ie National Student QA Reviewer Pool Training The Pool training will be hosted by the QQI and USI in Dublin on August 27th 2019. Applicants are expected to be available for this training. NStEP will support the training at their first annual Train the Trainer conference. The pool participants are expected to be from a range of institutions and study across a range of disciplines and subject areas. Quality & Qualifications Ireland (QQI) will explain the work that they […]
