On Wednesday the 19th October some 5000 students are expected to descend upon the streets of Dublin. No, they’re not there for a Coldplay concert, they’re there to protest the Government’s desire to introduce a student loan scheme following the publication of the Cassells Report, a report on the future of third level education. Here’s…
You’re a poor student who is tired of wearing the same jeans you had in transition year and you’re looking for some new threads to wow that absolute ride in your course, but you’re down to twenty quid a week, and clothing is expensive, right? Wrong! Here is your comprehensive guide to the seemingly little-known…
I make the point of not doing your usual, run of the mill editorials, it’s simply not who I am. I was never one for talking about myself, what I did, what I’m doing and so forth, so those editorials always bored me, and I never really saw the point. That’s why I prefer to…
University College Cork achieved an ‘Award for Outstanding International Student Satisfaction’ with a score of 9.5+, and were recognised as the winner of ‘Most Satisfied Students 2015-16’. UCC’s International Student Blog, UCC International, equally conveys the longstanding sense of welcome towards its international students, as the friendly environment around the campus and within clubs &…
On Wednesday the 28th of September, the Coalition for Publicly Funded Higher Education group, which is comprised by the USI, SIPTU, IFUT, IMPACT and TUI, at a press conference again pushed the case for publicly funded third level education. This included having a framework for how funding education would work, citing how it has worked…
The accommodation crisis currently sweeping through Ireland’s third level students means that, for some, commuting to college from their family home via car or public transport is the only viable option. ‘Commuter culture’ often has the effect of creating a 9-5 way of life in universities, meaning students are regularly forced to miss out on…
Results of a study conducted by the Irish League of Credit Unions, which surveyed over 1000 Irish adults through the marketing company iReach, found that over 60% of Irish parents get into debt funding third level education for their children. Of those surveyed, 70% said they really struggle to cover the cost of their child’s…
NUI Galway is alone in climbing the QS World University Rankings while other Irish Universities take substantial falls. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is pointing towards budget cuts, increasing numbers of students and high ratios of students to teachers. State Funding to the education sector has been slashed in recent years, with funding…
The Gender Recognition Act, which celebrates it first anniversary this week, was hailed as milestone piece of legislation, and has directly significantly improved the lives of over 150 people in the year since the bill was signed into law. From a legal perspective it now means that transgender people in Ireland can have their gender…
The following is the article as it originally appeared in the September 8th issue of the UCC Express: “The College of SEFS have introduced a new module for all incoming Post-Graduate students that means that they will have to do 50 hours of unpaid teaching before being paid for their work. The module, titled “PG6026…