[…]health problems that we all can go through? We’re encouraging students to make time to share a cuppa today and really ask someone how they’re doing.” Sarah Surgenor, Communications Manager at St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services said: “Mental health issues are experienced by every family in Ireland. It’s something we all know about. ‘Chats for Change’ encourages students to begin this conversation and we’re delighted to be on hand to give mental health advice to students at various colleges throughout the country this […]
[…]effective that College Times was forced to remove the article from their website. In commentary to newspapers today, Joe O’Connor, USI President, gave the following statement: “The article was crass and insensitive in the extreme and will have been read by many as misogynistic, predatory nonsense. USI wholeheartedly condemns the article and we’re delighted that so many student activists and friends put the effort in to showing this up for the dismal attempt at edginess it is. It’s unfortunate that this appears to be some websites’ reason for being. We think it’s time for College Times to call it a […]
[…]the last number of years representing students from lower-socio economic backgrounds who were struggling to deal with the constrained economic climate, increasing costs of going to college and reduced student supports. This has created a perfect storm which has left many hard-pressed students and families at their wits’ end. So without hesitation, if I could change one thing about our education system, it would be that financial barriers to accessing third-level education would no longer be a concern. Families would no longer have to sit around the kitchen table deciding if they could afford to send all or some of their children […]
[…]4th year Pharmacy students while on placement. These students were the first cohort to face the brunt of a ban on receiving payment for their labour. The ban was introduced by the pharmacy regulator, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), and enforced by APPEL, the pharmacy placement management group. In Autumn 2019 these students will also be the first to face increased fees in 5th year, ranging between €7,500 and €8,500. Today’s rally at that Dáil gained widespread cross-party support against these fees. USI President, Síona Cahill said; “Our future pharmacists are being exploited with extortionate fees and […]
[…]and the description of the site on search engines. Imagine our surprise, then, when our listing on Google had USI as a purveyor of drugs for erectile dysfunction and all sorts of other things. We identified the type of hack immediately and began the process of cleansing the site. In the end, cleansing the site was impossible, so we quarantined the old one, backed up our data files and installed a completely fresh and fully updated version of the website. Within three hours of properly identifying the issue, we have a new site, zero loss of data and a new, […]
