Critical Analysis
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
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
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
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
This year proves that united as students, we can pressure the authorities and win on important issues.
Critical Analysis
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
The closed-shop student union model has paradoxically led to an all-encompassing, yet strikingly unrepresentative model of democracy.
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
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.
The alienation of our union’s main decision-making body from the grassroots is by design, not by accident.
bill
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).
careerism
Our union’s political strategy is ridiculous, and one that I will never manage to understand. It is painfully obvious which way our union is facing. Instead of relying on students for its power, it turns towards College.