Amid renewed frustrations from postgraduate representatives, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has said it wants to see a significant vote on a postgraduate officer at the union’s congress in 2018. Long a sore point in the national union’s relationship with postgraduate students, calls at congress last year for a postgraduate officer were rebuffed, with USI officers pointing to the current financial and organisational limiting the organisation from hiring a new officer. Oisín Hassan, the Vice-President for Academic Affairs in USI, re-iterated these points to The University Times. Hassan said that the current “aim and hope” is to have a vote on whether to … Continue reading USI Promises Postgraduates Vote on New Officer in 2018