[…]Barriers That Students Still Face with 2020 Just Around the Corner With the second highest fees in the EU and soaring rents, students are facing barriers to their education every day. Currently in Ireland, students are forced to pay €3,000 for their student contribution fee, while rents are rising at a staggering rate [In Dublin, rent for purpose-built student accommodation costs over €800 per month]. The national student movement have deemed it unacceptable for the Government to expect students to be able to afford this, and have on countless occasions lobbied TD’s and Senators to alleviate these costs through […]
[…]consider the following, amongst more in consultation with these groups: Minimum standards of training for all parties involved in conducting disciplinary procedures including first contacts, investigators and disciplinary committee members. Special accommodations must be outlined for students taking cases of sexual harassment which consider, how many times a complaining student must recount their experience of abuse, whether a complaining student can have someone speak on their behalf, whether the complaining student must face their accused, giving fair warning to the complaining student of exactly when the accused will be notified of the case against them and so on. A support worker […]
[…]implemented and some surprises coming, but we’re now testing real-life use of the site. In the coming weeks, you’ll see: Direct student consultation A section for each member organisation (MO) Dedicated section for members of USI National Council Offers (right now, check out the brilliant Student Laptop seal with our partner Rehab Recycle A comprehensive database of all USI communication with the media, including all press releases and statements released by the organisation Much more video and in depth commentary from USI’s officers (but check out Welfare Officer Denise McCarthy’s introduction to the Rent Book on the right hand side […]
[…]a student drug campaign focuses on synthetic cannabinoids and mephedrone. The second phase of a drug information campaign aimed at students was launched today by the Union of Students of Ireland (USI), in partnership with Drugs.ie and the HSE. The campaign focuses on harm reduction messaging and is aimed at young adults and students who use New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)*. This is the second step of an ongoing campaign to provide harm reduction information about NPS for students. Two posters have been designed supported by a social media campaign to give harm reduction advice and information on accessing support. This […]
[…]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 National Forum for Doctoral Education Advisory Forum. The data will be used to initiate a discussion around increasing postgraduate funding nationally. No personally identifying information will be collected (IP addresses are automatically collected but will be unpaired from data before analysis). All this data is presented as an […]
