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[…]promoting services. We see the USI as a key stakeholder in this and I am looking forward to the research and the campaigns to come from this collaborative project”. The Mental Health Project Manager will integrate national level partnerships with local Students’ Unions and develop a core student-focused approach to mental health in Ireland. The project will provide ongoing advice and support to students via campaign messaging, training for student leaders and the development of workshops for students to be run out across the country in third level institutions. This project will run for 9 months. USI will be recruiting […]
[…]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 […]
[…]student loan debt ($1tn+) is greater in value than the combined economies of Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia. In other words, American students owe the combined value of all transactions in those countries in a year. 70% of the 2015 college graduates in the UK are not expected to ever fully repay their college loans, according to The Institute of Fiscal Studies. Home-ownership in under-40s in New Zealand has drastically fallen since the introduction of student loans, from 57% to 25%.” Hoey warned that coming too close to the expectation of mass indebtedness of our young people, as seen in the […]
