[…]should stop at secondary school. They talked about wanting to make Ireland the best place in the world to be a child, but between the cost of going to college, the lack of student accommodation and no mention of specific supports for students, it seems like they want to hand young people a plane ticket along with their Leaving Cert. results. “While we welcome the repeat of the €1,000 Student Contribution Charge and the 33 per cent reduction in apprenticeship fees, and the slight increase in the minimum wage, there has been no move that will fundamentally do anything to […]
[…]of the European Students’ Union, and then a year as Secretary General of the European Youth Forum in Brussels. He returned to Dublin in 1998 to work with the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed, and finally headed home to Mayo where he managed the Ballyhaunis Family Resource Centre before his sudden death on August 17. It was no surprise he travelled so widely. In his spell with USI, it was clear he was a political polyglot, able to speak and understand the many different languages of union leaders across the island. He was equally comfortable debating the potential pitfalls […]
[…]Strategy. It was supposed to be published last July and we are still waiting, and with no word of when it will come. We have no way of measuring what is happening with student accommodation and what stage projects such as this are at. We had to ask a Parliamentary Question to get any information on this project, which we are now told is not progressing because they are essentially searching for money to progress it to tender. That is not good enough when we are in a student accommodation crisis.” TCDSU President, László Molnárfi said: “What is happening with […]
[…]of the majority of staff and students at Trinity College. A recent poll carried out by Trinity News showed 76 per cent of students agree they have been effective. Protests that the college deem to be in line with their ‘rules’ would not work. That is not real protest. Through the fine and ongoing threats of more fines or exclusions from the college, management is punishing students for caring about the university’s complicity in genocide and about current and future students who cannot afford to pay high rents or more fees and are essentially being sent the message that third-level […]
[…]afford to be quiet about the terrible conditions currently impacting students and staff that are breaking the futures of Ireland’s youth, so we are speaking out.” The six main demands are: Permanent funding to bring student counselling services to a 1:1000 ratio of counsellors to students Increase in core grant funding for institutions to plug the €307 million funding gap in the third-level education sector Abolish tuition fees and move to a fully free higher education system Seize vacant housing, restore the eviction ban and introduce rent controls to affordable levels End precarious work in universities, among both academic and […]
