[…]of 15,000) Pink Training The largest LGBT event in Ireland and the largest LGBT training event in the world. 400 students work for a weekend in worskshops, training and support classes. Enormous event, extremely positive feedback. (Sponsorship of the event guide, t-shirts, bags) (November, Annually) USI Congress (sponsorship of the congress guide and last night gala dinner) (Spring, Annually) The Student Exam Guide (published in December for Christmas Exams and in April in time for spring exams and […]
[…]22 per cent, a new survey from Durex reveals. In time for National Condom Week, (October 15-21), the world’s leading condom maker Durex has revealed just 55 per cent of Irish 18-year-olds will leave secondary school withany formal sexual health education, while another 15 per cent cannot remember receiving theirs. What’s more, more than 80 per cent of Irish men and women risk STIs and unplanned pregnancy by not always using a condom with a new partner or someone who is not their main partner. The global survey found that just 12per centwill always use a male condom with someone […]
[…]at one point had turnover over €600m per annum and employed 1,500 people in 200 locations around the world. As the co-founder of Magill magazine and chairman for many years of the (now sadly defunct) Sunday Tribune, he contributed enormously to the political and cultural life of the nation. If you, or someone you know, has ever availed of travel as a student on a special deal, they essentially have Gordon Colleary to thank. What started with a student travel bureau in 1961 when USI was only two years old, grew with his leadership to become a pioneering travel organisation […]
[…]the environment Did you know the parliament has 3 main roles? Legislative (Passing EU laws, together with the Council of the EU, based on European Commission proposals) Supervisory (Democratic scrutiny of all EU institutions) Budgetary (Establishing the EU budget, together with the Council) Did you know that there’s an election in 2019? The next Elections to the European Parliament are expected to be held on the 23-26 May 2019. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament currently represent some 500 million people from 28 member states Did you know that voting at EU eu level is actually easy? […]
[…]recommended ratios, they are the internationally accepted figures. And I think if anyone considers the struggles young people currently face and how many people they know that suffer from mental health issues, they would not think that one counsellor for every 2,240 students is enough. Also, it is not fair for Government to expect these services to operate from year to year, only finding out in mid-December what funding they are getting for the following year. It is practically impossible for them to plan or to hire counsellors that will sign up to that uncertainty. It’s past time that student […]
