The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is warning TDs that every young person on the dole costs the State twice as much as a student on the grant. At a pre-budget briefing in Dublin today, USI President Joe O’Connor will show TDs that a cut to the student maintenance grant is not just unfair, but also counter-productive and […]
[…]conjunction with their member organisations throughout the country, will be promoting this survey over the coming weeks. Link to the survey: http://survey.usi.ie/index.php?sid=76276&lang=en (or if you’re tweeting, use http://tinyurl.com/usi2013) Laura Harmon, USI Vice President for Equality and Citizenship said: “We are hoping to get a good response rate from students throughout the country for this survey so that we can gain a greater insight into the prevalence of violence in relation to third level students. This is the first time that we have undertaken a study of this scale for this age group. We hope that the information we receive will be useful […]
