[…]than the whole of society and is the latest display of a real desire among students and staff worldwide to reclaim their campuses. The Irish student experience has changed significantly during times of austerity. Student supports have been drastically cut over the last decade and student fees have risen excessively. Students in Ireland pay the second highest fees in Europe. The USI wishes to convey its support for the direct action taken in LSE, following on from the recent occupation of the New University in Amsterdam and similar activities in Warwick, Birmingham, Sheffield and Oxford. It is resoundingly clear that students and staff in higher education […]
[…]right. Design is enormously valuable as a profession and a discipline. Irish industry and industry worldwide relies on brilliant Irish designers educated in our colleges, and we’re proud to have them as members. Additionally, USI is a frequent client for design agencies and freelancers throughout the year, have been for many years and we will again. We know from our own experience that Irish designers offer great value and their work brings enormous benefits to our work – grabbing people’s attention, making our campaigns more effective and helping us work for students of all disciplines. We’re really sorry we created […]
The USI website gets quite a bit of traffic – we pull in around 94% of our viewers from Ireland and the UK (mostly from Northern Ireland). We’re fairly extensively linked to and we attract an enormous amount of spam. All of this makes developing and managing the site somewhat complex – but rewarding when viewership increases due to changes to the site. We’re already seeing some small evidence of that today. The new design aims to put the stories we think will interest the rest of the world in our work – we have an external readership focus for 80% […]
[…]I need and should have available here in Ireland. Or unless I can illegally import some abortion pills- something that holds a potential 14 years imprisonment if I get caught. Not really great options. And options that exclude certain women- those under 18 who do not have the resources to secure these options and women who do not have the finances to fund these options. Over 4,000 women every year travel outside of Ireland to access abortion services. And over a quarter of these are under the age of 24. Not all of these women are victims of terrible […]
[…]there is no Irish Officer in a certain MO, the V.P. Irish will work with the relevant union in order to ensure that the Union is catering for the needs of Irish speakers. b. The V.P. Irish will organise a training session for the Irish Language community in USI on an annual basis. This training will be organised in co-operation with relevant organisations from the Irish Language Sector. This training will outline the responsibilities on Irish Language Officers, or Cumainn Gaelaigh in part with their Union in the absence of an Irish Language Officer. c. To encourage the use of […]
[…]action will take place on Saturday the 23rd of December at 1pm on Suffolk Street outside the Avoca store to highlight to Christmas shoppers the ties the store has to direct provision centres through its owner, Aramark. The Union are calling for Avoca management to cut ties with Aramark in the New Year as part of Avoca’s New Years Resolution. Speaking ahead of the action, USI President Michael Kerrigan, said: “The situation in direct provision is cruel, and people are stuck there for up to 7 years. People can’t work, people get just over €20 a week, and people have […]
[…]are pregnant In Ireland were allowed to make their own decisions with their doctors, rather than shipping them across the Irish sea to the UK and elsewhere under a shadow of judgement” USI is the national representative body for the 374,000 students in third level education on the Island of Ireland, and is a member of the national civil society campaign, Together For Yes. USI registered 18,000 students who have never voted before between September and November 2017 alone, adding to the upwards of 80,000 students registered to vote by USI in recent […]
[…]are pregnant In Ireland were allowed to make their own decisions with their doctors, rather than shipping them across the Irish sea to the UK and elsewhere under a shadow of judgement” USI is the national representative body for the 374,000 students in third level education on the Island of Ireland, and is a member of the national civil society campaign, Together For Yes. USI registered 18,000 students who have never voted before between September and November 2017 alone, adding to the upwards of 80,000 students registered to vote by USI in recent […]
[…]away the student space on the Athlone campus that is currently used by the Students’ Union to store and distribute free period products, condoms and exam packs, as well as for other student-focused campaigns. The Students’ Union received an email that the college is converting the space, saying the decision is final – this follows a recent move by the university to take away a student space on the TUS Moylish campus in Limerick. USI President, Chris Clifford said: “This a vital space for the Students’ Union on the Athlone campus and they will not stand by and let this […]
[…]prioritised. The Ballot for prioritisation will close at 5.30pm on 7 March 2014 The Final Running Order for debates (The Motions Document) will be sent to SUs and published here on 14 March […]
