Submitted by jotoole on February 8, 2013 - 21:32
Ireland's largest student union, University College Dublin Students' Union, is facing a referendum on affiliation to the Union of Students in Ireland. The call for disaffiliation is becoming extremely popular and increasingly hard to challenge. The old mantra of 'united we stand divided we fall' seems to fall on deaf ears as people do not see or believe in the USI tagline "together we're stonger".
Submitted by jotoole on November 12, 2012 - 13:50
Students in Tallaght blocked Education Minister Ruairí Quinn's car from leaving the college’s campus today.
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) organised the demonstration.
“The actions of student’s today in IT Tallaght are indicative of a wider feeling of betrayal felt by families around Ireland,” said president John Logue.
About 140 students formed a ‘guard of dishonour’ as Quinn entered and left the building.
UCD students also joined the IT Tallaght protesters and Gardaí were required to move some students to allow Quinn access to his vehicle.
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November 12, 2012 - 13:46
Submitted by jotoole on October 5, 2012 - 11:52
Students in Quebec, whose strike shut down the province's higher education system for the first half of this year, celebrated the achievement of their top goals last month when the new Parti Québécois (PQ) government announced it was rescinding a planned tuition hike and repealing most of the repressive Law 12 aimed at restricting the right to protest.
Submitted by cboyd on May 17, 2012 - 16:37
The Union of Students in Ireland's (USI) latest efforts to withdraw
from their mandated demand of calling for free third level education
has fallen into farce. The union's holding of a little publicised
online poll to decide its policies should have been contested in the
first place. It has been revealed today that former students as well
as current ones were eligible to vote, some current students were
ineligible to vote and that ordinary users could easily gain access to
administrator pages within the website. Therefore, we would like to
Submitted by cboyd on May 15, 2012 - 19:20
Jessica Squires reports from a tuition fees revolt that has already seen Canada’s biggest ever protests
Striking students have been taking to the Quebec streets for three months.
Hundreds of thousands are involved in the movement against a proposed 75 percent increase in tuition fees. Students have voted to continue the strike in general assemblies every week.
La Classe, a radical coalition representing about half of those on strike, has consistently made the student struggle about the future of Quebec itself.
Submitted by cboyd on May 10, 2012 - 08:54
Hundreds of students and staff from Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE) gathered in protest today (Thursday May 10th at 11.30am) at the upcoming closure of the college creche at the end of this term due to cutbacks in funding to the CDVEC.
The affected BCFE students were devastated when they got the official news on Tuesday - a move which will push them out of the education system.
