[…]also be advocating for long-term policies and core funding for long-term plans. “Various TDs and Senators who attended on Tuesday, pledged to support our asks during the Budget 2024 debates. We agreed on certain follow-up actions with the members and will keep in contact ahead of the Budget.” The USI pre-Budget submission – based on the current USI policy file – will be finalised in the coming weeks and will be circulated to all involved in making the budgetary decisions and to Students’ Unions and the media. The Oireachtas members who attended or sent a staff representative on the day were: Alice […]
[…]in Garissa University. We stand in solidarity with the students affected by these heinous attacks and we share in the sorrow of all who are grieving. We urge the Kenyan government to oppose all forms of terrorism and to ensure that educational institutions are protected in dispersing knowledge and cultural understanding. Education, respect of freedom of expression, and tolerance of all faiths and none must be safeguarded. There can be no place for such senseless acts of violence in civil society. USI remembers the innocent students, police officers and member of the military killed in the attack. We send […]
[…]IT Tallaght Students’ Union, presently USI Officer Board) Vice President for the Border, Midland and Western Region – Barry Clohessy (IT Sligo Students’ Union) Vice President for the Southern Region – Lorna Fitzpatrick (IT Carlow Students’ Union) Vice President for the Dublin Region – Colm O’Halloran (Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union) Vice President for the Irish Language – Aoife Deasy (Saint Angela’s College Sligo Students’ […]
[…]the bedrock for the development of a sustainable economy and a vibrant society. Students in Ireland and their families are already paying through the nose for higher education, and pay the second highest fees in Europe. Student supports have been savagely cut over the last decade. Ireland now has over 165,000 students in full-time higher education – up by 40% since 2002. This figure is heading towards 200,000 by 2025. – yet public investment has not kept pace with the growth in student numbers, falling by 20% per student in the past decade. The system is grossly underfunded and deeply […]
[…]up a new intellectual Europe. Students! The German nation looks to us! In 1943, they expect from us the breaking of the National Socialist terror through the power of the spirit, just as in 1813 the Napoleonic [terror] was broken. Beresina and Stalingrad are going up in flames in the East, and the dead of Stalingrad beseech us: “Courage, my people! The beacons are burning!” Our nation is awakening against the enslavement of Europe by National Socialism, in a new pious revival of freedom and honor!” (An excerpt from Prof. Kurt Huber’s sixth and final leaflet which was distributed en […]
