[…]with your Social Care Department and encourage them to support you in lobbying the ministers and CORU to convene urgent discussions with all key stakeholders Share this open letter, and encourage peers, family and friends to share it using the #CareForSocialCare Complete this form and share your stories as a social care student Contact your TDs and senators and urge them to raise this matter with Ministers Simon Harris & Stephen Donnelly and call for immediate action Students have been a pivotal part of the frontline efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and social care students are no different in this […]
[…]which can best meet contemporary national and international challenges and demands.” Today, the Irish state funds 14 institutes of technology, seven universities and six colleges. While the public higher education sector has expanded to meet growing demand, funding has not kept pace with this development. Regrettably, it has decreased significantly. In the last seven years funding in the higher education sector was cut by 32% (over €428.3m). Aidan Kenny, Assistant General Secretary at TUI, welcomed the joint campaign by USI and TUI in support of free publically funded higher education. “It is vital that students and lecturers work together to […]
[…]Unions and student LGBTQ societies demonstrated outside the Russian Embassy in Dublin at 11am today (Wednesday, February 5th). There was a crowd of 50 + people that braved the bad weather to show solidarity and fight for human rights. The demonstration is taking place two days before the Winter Olympic Games commence in Sochi. Organisers of the demonstration wish Irish athletes the very best of luck in the Games. Today’s demonstration shows our solidarity with Russian LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) people. The demonstration called for: President Putin to pledge not to arrest anyone who is shown to be […]
[…]term, on them as they progress through education and graduate beyond college level. Systems, structures, legislation, as well as societal attitude and expectation heavily impact our female members trajectory, and ability to succeed throughout their lives. USI sees this as a fundamental moment in which the status quo, and the rate of change of mechanisms to advance equality, need to be challenged, improved, and re-energised. As the largest union in the country, USI sees its role as being integral to developing the National Women’s Strategy, particularly for a key cohort of female-identifying students between 18 and 24, who will have […]
