“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has denounced Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn, following the findings of an independent report by Accenture. The report, launched today, shows that the Minister failed vulnerable students in blind pursuit of public sector savings …” (more)
[Union of Students in Ireland, 17 May]
“The students of Cork Institute of Technology have voted to re-affiliate with USI after a 14 year absence from the national students’ union. After two days of voting, 71.2% voted in favour of re-affiliation …” (more)
[Facebook, 2 May]
“Thousands of third-level students are facing the possibility of not receiving exam results because they have not paid college fees. According to figures obtained by Nuacht RTÉ, over 2,000 students may not be allowed progress or graduate until they pay the outstanding fees …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 1 May]
“Political divisions over the future of the student movement have threatened to undermine the Union of Students in Ireland for the last number of years. After a year in which discontent and satisfaction were rendered through a series of affiliation referendums and the student contribution charge continued to rise relentlessly …” (more)
[Jack Leahy, University Times, 1 May]
“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has sought legal advice concerning the decision taken by Dublin City University Students’ Union (DCUSU) President Paul Doherty to declare the USI affiliation referendum that took place there in February, ‘null and void’ …” (more)
[Aoife Valentine, University Observer, 3 April]
“The political class of the student movement was rocked last night with news that DCU Students’ Union had declared the results of its recent referendum on USI membership null and void. The affiliation referendum, passed last month by a margin of 768 votes to 642 votes, had been hailed as a major coup for USI …” (more)
[Owen Bennett, University Times, 29 March]
“The President of the Union of Students (USI) in Ireland has blamed a ‘small cohort’ in DCU for the decision of the university’s students’ union to declare a recent referendum affiliating it to the USI ‘null and void’ …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 28 March]
“The new president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has vowed to tackle the financial difficulties faced by those attending third-level colleges …” (more)
[Brian McDonald, Independent, 28 March]
“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has today elected Roscommon native Joe O’Connor as its new president for 2013/2014 at its annual congress …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 27 March]
“The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) National Congress today rejected three motions aimed at securing a greater degree of gender equality within the student movement and society at large …” (more)
[Owen Bennett, University Times, 26 March]
“The Union of Students’ in Ireland may have been allowed to campaign on campus for the recent re-affiliation referendum based on misinformation …” (more)
[Aisling Kett and Aoife Mullen, The College View, 20 March]
“Children from better-off backgrounds are snapping up even more college places as the gap between social classes widens …” (more)
[Independent, 20 March]
“The head of the Union of Students of Ireland has rejected claims from one of the government’s new jobs tsars that some graduates today have an attitude problem when in the workplace …” (more)
[Peter Flanagan, Independent, 15 March]
“USI President John Logue responded today to critical statements made by PayPal’s Louise Phelan about the quality of graduates coming from Ireland’s third-level institutions …” (more)
[Union of Students in Ireland, 13 March]
“The campaign for the USI referendum was unfair, according to DCU Students’ Union President Paul Doherty. Responding to the results of the referendum, Doherty told The College View ‘you can’t compete with an organisation the size of USI’ …” (more)
[Aoife Mullen, The College View, 6 March]
“After a decade apart, DCU has voted to re-affiliate with the Union of Students in Ireland …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 28 February]
“Students in University College Dublin have voted to disaffiliate from the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). UCD Students’ Union will no longer be affiliated with USI after 63% of voters chose to leave …” (more)
[Jason Kennedy, Irish Times, 27 February]
“It is with great regret that I note the results of a referendum of UCD Students’ Union (UCDSU) which will result in its disaffiliation from the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) …” (more)
[USI, Facebook, 27 February]
“Students in UCD have voted to leave the national umbrella body of student unions, the Union of Students in Ireland …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 27 February]
“It’s our money – we can spend it how we like. During this campaign the YES side have increasingly attacked our campaign team for bringing up the Library, Bar and Copy Print Bureau as alternatives for the €120,000 we spend on USI each year …” (more)
[no2usi, 23 February]
