[…]and agricultural backgrounds, deter them from applying to college, and widen the gap between urban and rural opportunities.” Kevin Donoghue, USI President, said “People from rural backgrounds are more likely to be on 3rd level grants and so are more likely to be affected by the new proposals, for example 67% of students at LYIT (Letterkenny Institute of Technology) are on the grant, compared to only 24% of Trinity students.” The cost of college according to DIT Campus Life’s ‘Cost of Living’ survey is €11,000 a year for students to live away from home, compared to €7,000 a year for […]
[…]to the national union earlier today. I hope that DCU students will now play an active role in our national campaigns and join with their peers across the country in fighting to protect and striving to enhance the student experience. It has been a strange 48 hours. The unique circumstances in UCD, with their Students’ Union in financial difficulty, resulted in a vote to leave USI to focus on local issues. I have no doubt we will work with UCD again in the future and, with the return of DCU and a reaffirmation of Maynooth students’ support, USI can only […]
[…]receive. The data will be collated and presented to the Research Graduate Education Working Group and the National Forum for Doctoral Education Advisory Forum which the VP for Postgraduate Affairs and representatives from the Department of Further and Higher Education are members. The data will be used to initiate a discussion around increasing postgraduate funding nationally and will be presented within the working groups. All this data will be presented as an overall picture and no individual will be identifiable from the published results. The data will be correlated and presented to the Research Graduate Education Working Group and the […]
[…]14.30 USI President sets out student choices for the future of higher education in Ireland Ireland’s education system could be a world leader, where students ought never be constrained by their ability to afford courses, USI President Lorna Fitzpatrick has told an education sector seminar today. The leader of Ireland’s students was speaking in response to remarks by Minister for Higher and Further Education Simon Harris at the Future Forward event ‘Investing in Education in a Post COVID world’ hosted by the Education Futures Coalition and the Education division of ICTU in which speakers outlined their views for the future […]
[…]Budget Social Media Campaign. See the full list of nominations here. The VP Academic Affairs and the National Student Engagement Coordinator have been preparing for the next phase of the National Student Engagement Programme (NStEP) roll-out. They have also been planning a study visit for Armenian students involved in the ESPAQ project, aimed at increasing the participation of students in quality assurance. The VP Equality & Citizenship has been working with BelongTo and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to organise regional consultations for the LGBTI+ Youth Strategy, which will be the first of it’s kind in the […]
