[…]pushing the best and brightest to emigrate. USI fears graduates would be pushed out of the housing market as evidence from New Zealand shows that 51% of banks that received applications from clients with student debt had indicated that student loans were the contributing factor in rejecting finance – with 34% of those likely to be rejected being mortgages. The demonstration is supported by members of the Coalition for Publicly Funded Higher Education including the Irish Second Level Students’ Union, SIPTU, IMPACT, TUI, IFUT and the National Youth Council of Ireland. USI is campaigning for the Government to rule out […]
[…]of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa in front of the Egyptian embassy, 12 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, today, Monday October 3rd, between 5.30pm and 7pm. Ibrahim Halawa’s trial in Egypt has been adjourned for the 15th time, meaning that he has now spent 38 months in jail without a trial. The 20-year-old has been jailed since August 2013 after he was arrested and detained at a protest in Cairo. The demonstration was in support of the Muslim Brotherhood which had been ousted from power by the Egyptian military. The Egyptian authorities have chosen to trial Halawa in a mass trial along […]
[…]USI. USI Vice President for Equality and Citizenship, James Curry said: “USI is proud to attend today’s protest and support students with disabilities and disabled activists in general. The proposals in the Green Paper will negatively affect people who are on Disability Allowance, and other such payments. It is also completely wrong to talk about putting people into ‘tiers’ in order to decided what support they should get. “USI, along with our members, calls for the Disability Allowance be increased to cover the cost-of-living in Ireland. But the most important thing that disability activists and their supporters are demanding is […]
[…]Government. However, while widening access to higher education is an important aim – that we share – increasing places without the required accommodation and support services that will keep students in education, such as mental health facilities, will only result in students struggling through college, deferring places or dropping out. USI Deputy President and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Bryan O’Mahony said: “Simply increasing third-level places gives Government the chance to have positive headlines on CAO day, but without proper accommodation provision and adequate investment in colleges and universities, it is not going to achieve the aim of opening-up access […]
