Q: Do you support a graduate tax on third level students? Fine Gael have proposed a graduate tax to be placed on third level courses. This could see students paying anything between 25 to 64 thousand Euro after finishing their courses. At a time when taking a third level course is already an expensive option,…
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Student nurses continue campaign against wage cuts
WORDS: Aidan Rowe Over 3,000 Student nurses and midwives from all over the country marched through Dublin on Wednesday in the second phase of their campaign to overturn wage cut that would see 4th nursing and midwifery students working without pay from 2015 onwards. At present, 4th year students of nursing and midwifery receive 80%…
FEE students picketing Fine Gael HQ.
Students from the FEE (Free Education for Everyone) campaign are picketing the offices of Fine Gael today (2:30pm) in protest at the plans of the party to introduce a Graduate Tax system. FEE have staged many high profile events against Fianna Fail ministers in the past across various Irish campuses, such as blockades against Brian…
Student struggles of the 1980′s – talk from FEE National Meeting
(The following is the text of Andrew Flood’s talk from the recent FEE National Meeting. It was originally published on Anarchist Writers.) A key problem of student struggles in Ireland is that apart from the Student Unions there is no ongoing organisation or way of passing lessons learned from one generation to the next. Today…
Academic Freedom and Campus Dissent – Panel Discussion
February 15, 2011, 6:30 pm William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium, UCD, Belfield: Academic Freedom and Campus Dissent (Panel) Chair: Paddy Healy, Former President, Teachers’ Union of Ireland Professor Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick: Academic Freedom and Campus Dissent in the UK Dr. Paula Gilligan, Centre for Public Cultures, IADT: ‘Flexicurity/Insecurity’, New Managerial Cultures and Academic Freedom…
Student nurses begin campaign of resistance against ‘slave labour’ cuts
WORDS: Aidan Rowe The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has launched a campaign of resistance against plans to cut the pay of 4th year nursing and midwifery students to zero by 2015. At present, 4th year students of nursing and midwifery receive 80% of the minimum salary of full-time staff during their 36-week work placements….
On Occupation and the University: A Discussion
The Provisional University and Free Education for Everyone (FEE) present: On Occupation and the University: A Discussion 7pm, Thursday, January 27th, Seomra Spraoi. Following international coverage of the occupations of universities across the UK and Italy, the occupation here of the Department of Finance during anti-student fee protests late last year and the occupation of…
FEE and NISA demonstration called for Saturday 29th in Derry. Save the EMA! Fight Fees!
RALLY AGAINST EDUCATION CUTS! SATURDAY 29th JANUARY 1pm GUILDHALL SQUARE DERRY FEE – Save the EMA! Resist any rise in tuition fees! FEE (Free Education for Everyone) is a non-politically aligned campaigning group made up of school students, university students and all those opposed to education cuts. It is a non-sectarian organisation with students involved…
FEE NUIG lead walkout at Frank Fahey’s ‘public meeting’.
Galway West Fianna Fail T.D Frank Fahey last night held a public meeting in Galway which saw local anti-cuts activists and other campaigners question the T.D in relation to the governments savage cutbacks and austerity agenda. The meeting ended early as a large proportion of the crowd walked out on Fahey, staging a protest outside….
