The UCC Student’s Union has this week announced a competition, run alongside Three Ireland, which gives UCC Students the opportunity to win tickets to see Versatile in the 3arena. The competition, running on the UCCSU Instagram page runs until the 18th of November. Versatile are a rap group composed of rappers Eskimo Supreme and…
On Monday 15th October, the seven universities of Ireland (Trinity, UCD, DCU, UCC, NUIG, UL and NUI Maynooth) launched a major campaign aimed at encouraging the public to demand the Government tackles the funding crisis in third level education. The Government’s funding per third level student in Ireland (€5,000) is just half of the same…
At USI Congress, held last week in the Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe (Co. Galway), the Officer Board for next year’s Union of Students in Ireland Officer Board (USI OB) were elected. Delegations, formed of incoming & outgoing SU officers and class reps, would vote on behalf of their student bodies, with some delegations being mandated in…
While the government is still deciding on the funding of third level education, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is approaching local county councils in an effort to gain support for increasing spending in the sector. Since the middle of 2017, USI officers have been contacting county councils to lay out their argument for…
Seoladh foclóir aiteach i dteanga na Gaeilge inné in Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath mar chuid de chomhoibriú idir Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn (AMLÉ/USI), BeLonG To Youth Services, agus an Transgender Equality Network of Ireland (TENI) le tacaíocht ó Joe McHugh, Aire don Ghaeilge, don Ghaeltacht, agus do na hOileáin. Is é ‘An…
Today (right now, as I write this) UCC student council meets to, among other things, decide where UCC’s votes at USI Congress will go. As with the SU elections, RON (Re-Open Nominations) is a candidate in all elections. Síona Cahill, current USI VP for Equality & Citizenship, is unopposed for President and, due to her…
EDIT – 22:12 06/03/2018: Headline changed from “#UCCVotes – Why you should vote to re-affiliate with USI” to “#UCCVotes – Why you should vote to stay affiliated with USI” in response to a request from USI We asked Michael Kerrigan, USI President, to tell us why he feels UCC students should vote to stay affiliated…
Voting on the Students’ Union elections opened today on campus, with students filing into the Boole Basement, O’Rahilly Building, Kane and Brookfield (and CEC, CUH and Copley St.) to vote for their favourite candidates. Also on the slate is the USI affiliation referendum, with the following question put to students: Should UCC Students’ Union remain in…
On February 20th we launched our SU Satisfaction Survey, a survey to gauge student opinions on their SU over the last year, and more generally about how the Union is ran. We asked students thirty-six questions across five categories. These categories were: General Info, information about the person responding to the survey; Factual Questions, were…
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has come forward once again to demand changes for student teachers. A recent report found that there has been a ‘total collapse’ in the number of applicants for teacher-training courses, a collapse that the Union believes is linked to the lack of financial support in place for those…