[…]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 the implementation of publicly funded higher education, building affordable accommodation and adequate rental protection legislation. As part of the ongoing campaign to ‘Break the Barriers’ to […]
[…]please contact: Samaritans – 116 123 Yourmentalhealthe.ie Aware – 1800 80 48 48 Pieta House – 1800 247 247 Walk In My Shoes – 01 249 33 33 LGBT Helpline – 1890 929 539 Bodywhys – 1890 200 […]
President of USI, Lorna Fitzpatrick and President of the Irish Second-Level Students’ Union, Reuban Murray, have this afternoon (Friday, October 2) sent a joint letter to Ministers Norma Foley TD and Simon Harris TD requesting an urgent meeting to discuss emergencies arising from the errors in Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades. See the full letter below Letter from USI and ISSU to […]
[…]Union of Students in Ireland (USI): USI is the national representative body for Ireland’s 250,000 students in third level education. www.usi.ie For further information please contact: Sorcha Lowry, See Change Communications & Partnership Coordinator, T: + 1 8601620 M: + 86 7954391 E: slowry@seechange.ie Twitter: […]
[…]there has been a 21% increase in the number of self-harm cases among 10 to 24-year-olds between 2007 and 2017, USI have teamed up with Pieta House, Preventing Suicide and Self Harm to help break the stigma and shame surrounding self-harm, and spread the word about supports available if a student or their friend is going through a crap time. USI are encouraging students to add an orange ribbon to their profile pictures – an image which also bares a ‘semi-colon’ symbol, used to indicate where an author could have ended a sentence, but chose not to. The orange ribbon […]
