By FEE UCD As has been well documented, when Labour became the balance of power under the Spring Tide, one of their lasting achievements was the abolishment of third level fees for all undergraduates. Next week, students of UCD will be asked whether or not they want to abandon this principle in favour of…
By Alan Spencer (FEE Galway) On November 2nd, 2011 the Fine Gael / Labour government paid out over 700 million euro to the unsecured bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank – a bank that no longer effectively exists or functions as such, a bank that so far has swallowed up billions of euro of Irish taxpayers money…
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…
Springtime, the New Student Rebellions (Edited by Clare Solomon and Tania Palmieri. Verso.) The autumn and winter of 2010 saw the sudden and dramatic re-emergence of radical student movements, with mass student uprisings taking place across Europe and the United States in opposition to both the austerity measures being levelled against ordinary people as a…
In the last two weeks, activists (both staff and students) from the Social Solidarity Network and Free Education for Everyone have been attempting to organise against the honorary professorship awarded to Bertie Ahern T.D by the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Education shouldn’t be a debt sentence. UCD Free Education for Everyone are holding a protest against the arrival of pro-fees TD, Bertie Ahern on campus.
On Friday, Feb. 20, the student occupation of New York University’s Kimmel Center for Student Life ended, and the repercussions began. The university suspended the last 18 students who remained in Kimmel Friday morning, and non-N.Y.U. participants were told that their information would be given to the NYPD for trespassing. Judicial hearings begin on Monday…
He might have watched them on the telly. Or listened to their chants broadcast on the radio. He might have even waited until the following day and read all about it in the national press. Or perhaps, Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe locked himself away in his office and chose to ignore the cries of…
A student sit-in at the administration building of the Helsinki University ended peacefully this morning. The protestors held discussions with Helsinki University Chancellor Thomas Wilhelmsson about proposed regulatory reform, details of university legislation and the status of students. About 100 students occupied the university’s administration building from Thursday afternoon. About two dozen protesters remained…
Last week, on the 11th of February F.E.E activists in N.U.I Maynooth dropped a reasonably sized banner off the bridge connecting the North and South campuses reading: NO TO FEES! WE WONT PAY
