The Union of Students in Ireland unveils the ‘Tinder of Politics’
The USI hopes that Smartvote will help students to engage with politics and make a smart choice in the General Election
Science Gallery receives Google Field Trip Grant
The grant will cover transport and others costs for every secondary school student in Ireland to visit the gallery.
Students in Myanmar continue hunger strike for release of political prisoners
Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, has urged students to stop.
What can you gain from an Arts degree?
Arts students shouldn’t live in a bubble, but their choices are as valid as anyone else’s.
Student drug culture isn’t the end of the world
Common student drug use is not about the minority of students for whom drugs become an issue
Escaping a broken health system
Trinity medics outline their reasons for emigrating and react to talk of plans to make them stay.
I don’t want to change the world…
The SU should be focusing more on student issues like library hours, and less on unachievable political campaigns. Maxime Bercholz isn’t looking for a new Ireland, he’s just looking for a new SU.
The Student’s Guide to Apathy
Tommy Gavin defends the much maligned but understandable apathy of the Irish.
Student nurses protest against “training” wage of €6.49 an hour
James Prendergast Deputy News Editor The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has launched its “Everybody Loves Nurses” campaign against the reduction in starting salary of graduate nurses by ¤4,000 to ¤22,000 and the payment of below minimum wage salaries to nurses on their final year work placements. The campaign began with a demonstration outside […]
Mumbai is Right to Say “Yes” to “No-Selfie Zones”
Posted by Majella McParland on January 28, 2016 · Leave a Comment
On the 13th of January, Mumbai City officials announced that sixteen areas of the city are to be declared “no-selfie zones”. This was in response to a tragic incident in which three teenagers fell into the Arabian Sea while posing for a selfie. A passer-by managed to rescue two of the girls but drowned trying […]
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