Feb 25, 2021 | Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
A Bill to protect student renters for the remainder of the COVID-19 pandemic will be tabled in the Dáil today (Thursday) on the back of a campaign led by the Union of Students in Ireland. Sinn Fein will table the Bill, which will be signed by 56 opposition TDs,...
Feb 19, 2021 | Academic Affairs, Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
Government must step in and work to reduce the cost of Gaeltacht placement for student teachers in private colleges, according to the Union of Students in Ireland. No student should be charged an extra fee to complete a mandatory and integral part of their college...
Feb 12, 2021 | Academic Affairs, Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
Today, USI and Students’ Unions who represent Social Care students have collectively written to CORU, the Ministers for Further and Higher Education; Health; and Social Protection, Quality and Qualifications Ireland and the Higher Education Institutions urging them to...
Feb 10, 2021 | Featured, RELEASES, USI News
The Student and Learner Wellbeing and Engagement Working Group that reports to the Tertiary Education Sector Steering group chaired by the Department of Further & Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science is requesting submissions from parties interested...
Dec 16, 2020 | Academic Affairs, Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
The Union of Students in Ireland this afternoon (December 16) staged a socially distanced demonstration at Leinster House calling on TDs to sign its Education for All pledge and highlighting the urgent need for action in key areas of higher education funding and...
Dec 10, 2020 | Campaigns, Featured, RELEASES, USI News
The Union of Students in Ireland is encouraging students and their friends and family to contact their local representatives and members of the Oireachtas Committee on Health in relation to the issues facing student nurses and midwives. USI has been raising the need...
