The passing of our emergency motion at the recent Union of Students Ireland (USI) Congress to take a position of no-confidence in the government has been met with applause from all corners of the third-level sector. This is certainly a …
Corporate encroachment on academia must be stopped in its tracks-and students and staff must not be afraid to play their part
Senior management are deeply complicit in the plight of our universities, not least by creating a culture of silence amongst staff, writes László Molnárfi, SSP Convenor of the TCDSU
If we were to blame senior management for the problems that plague College, we would be sorely misguided. Government starvation of the third-level sector is to blame for the ills that plague our universities, including high student-staff ratios, insufficient infrastructure …