[…]coming too close to the expectation of mass indebtedness of our young people, as seen in the UK, USA and Australia will create locked-in class systems and make upward mobility inaccessible, while moving life events (such as home-ownership) back by decades. Hoey said this will have a ripple effect of negativity on other societal platforms apart from education, such as the property market, and the economy. Hoey also emphasised that 46% of all new college entrants were in receipt of a grant in the academic year of 2013/2014, according to SUSI reports, and the slashing of maintenance grants in the […]
[…]the President’s initiative and his willingness to engage with young people in a meaningful and constructive manner. Presidents from twenty three Students’ Unions will attend the meeting, along with USI’s Officer Board. The visiting Students’ Unions include: Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology National University of Ireland Galway Waterford Institute of Technology IT Tallaght National College of Ireland St. Angela’s College Sligo Dublin Institute of Technology Limerick Institute of Technology Letterkenny Institute of Technology NUI Maynooth Dundalk Institute of Technology University College Dublin University College Cork Institute of Technology Carlow Trinity College Dublin Institute […]
[…]front and centre of the consultations. The strategy will be the first of it’s kind in the world, and aims to target young LGBTI+ people in looking at the supports and services they have experienced, had access to, or may need. Every young LGBTI+ person has had a different lived experience and no two people are the same, and the consultations are anxious to reflect the diversity of experience and requirements for different people within the community. This is an incredibly important strategy document which will take it’s direction from the consultations with young people in Ireland between the ages […]
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