Critical Analysis
A Brief History of the Irish Student Anti-Austerity Movement Since The 2010s
Theory is necessary to guide us. Without theory pertaining to the material context, we are sailors of a ship neither its origin nor destination known.
Laszlo Molnarfi
Critical Analysis
The Roots Party: A Grassroots Revolution for Rural and Working-Class Ireland
Founded three years ago, the Roots Party is an emerging political movement that aims to address the systemic neglect of rural and working-class communities in Ireland.
News
Reprint: College's waste management sees promising developments but raises further concerns
In the modern age of sustainability, higher education institutions are taking increasing steps to reduce their environmental footprint and College is no exception.
Critical Analysis
Reprint: College's Overnight Guests Policy is About Sexual Suppression
College’s dorm guests policy amounts to a de facto total ban on overnight visitors. This is the institution’s declaration of war on sexual activity.
Critical Analysis
Reprint: The Limits of Student Politics
The strategy behind the student encampments was to light the embers of the pro-Palestine movement into a wildfire of tremendous force across society.
Critical Analysis
Reprint: The student movement must develop a liberatory political programme
This year proves that united as students, we can pressure the authorities and win on important issues.
Critical Analysis
Reprint: Internationalisation of the academic sector cannot be separated from colonial legacy
One certainty about the third-level education sector is that it would be substantially harder to maintain without international students who are used as the cash cows of universities in Ireland and the United Kingdom alike.
Critical Analysis
Totalising Politicisation: Voluntary Associationism in Student Unions for Progressive Ends
The closed-shop student union model has paradoxically led to an all-encompassing, yet strikingly unrepresentative model of democracy.
TCDSU is the most democratic it has ever been, via grassroots participation
Throughout the year, the union held consistent meetings of the Campaigns Committee, on topics including but not limited to the housing crisis, masters’ fees and period products.
Critical Analysis
In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false
Our third-level institutions profess to promote equality, diversity and inclusion in their words. Yet, in their actions, they increase fees and rents, put our teachers on insecure contracts and foster unethical connections with greedy politicians, big business and unsavoury industries.
Student Unions Must Become Radical or They'll Become Redundant
The alienation of our union’s main decision-making body from the grassroots is by design, not by accident.
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HEA Bill 2022: Implications and Consequences
The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science is putting forward a bill repealing and replacing the Higher Education Authority Act (1971).