[…]employment prospects for many of our generation.” Donoghue said. “JobBridge promotes unhealthy, unstable work schemes and exploits the time, energy and talent of young people. JobBridge is simply not the win-win programme it was pitched as. It’s a tax-payer scheme that allows businesses to breed inferiority complexes, poor working conditions and in turn, poor mental health such as anxiety, depression and despair in the youth.” JobBridge will be discontinued in […]
[…]deficit in Building Managers across DIT’s numerous campuses, a lack of clerical staff in student health centres, and vacancies in key lecturing posts. Síona Cahill, USI President, expressing her backing for DITSU’s actions to highlight this staffing shortage said, “Cutting library opening hours and threatening the future of smaller campus libraries will have a huge impact on students who need these services most, such as part-time and mature students, those who work or commute during the day, and those who do not have the equipment, books, or workspace available to them in their own homes or accommodation. “It is imperative […]
[…]citizens who aspire to it. It has also campaigned on issues such as marriage equality, sexual health and family planning. During your first year in college we hope you’ll join us in our campaigns. Every year, college students face new and more serious threats to their education. The government’s reaction to the economic slump has been astoundingly shortsighted. They have increased the student contribution charge and cut the maintenance grant on an annual basis and in doing so have created a massive financial burden for students and their families. And that’s where you come in. The most important time of […]