Galway, Ireland. 22ú Feabhra/February 2011 Students, led by the group Free Education for Everyone Galway, are set to march against the planned increase of Third-Level fees to €3000 by 2015 and the abolition of the Postgraduate grant. The march will take place in Galway on Wednesday, 29 February at 1pm, with participants marching from NUIG’s campus…
By Joseph Loughnane (FEE Galway) Education should be about teaching people how to think, not what to think. Third level education today however has become no more than state subsidised training. Universities are now just a huge assembly line churning out regimented workers for the benefit of corporations, banks and big business. Terms such as…
By Sarah McCarthy (FEE Galway) Recently, Education Minister Ruarí Quinn and Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced that third-level fees will have reached €3,000 by 2015. Coupled with the recent removal of the maintenance grant for Post-Graduate degrees, this measure comes as a serious blow to current and prospective students. The same week as this revelation, FEE…
This Monday, 23rd January FEE Galway are hosting an open forum dedicated to how people have been affected by rising fees and falling grants. It will take place from 6 – 8pm in the O’Flaherty Theatre (NUIG) All are welcome to attend
A group of students occupied the offices of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Council today calling for grants to be paid on time. They were also calling for an increase in the income thresholds so that more students can avail of grants.
In a demonstration outside the Department of Education, on Thursday March 7th, 2002 around 70 students protested against the pathetic level of the student grant. The demo was the result of a motion put to UCD SU council by grass roots councillors.
