The University Times

When barely 50 per cent of Trinity students would pay higher taxes for free education, student leaders must redouble their efforts to unite the student movement.

Questions of national sovereignty and territorial disputes seem beyond student concerns, and give reason to hesitate before leaping towards union stance.

Instead of rejuvenating the campaign period and giving candidates a sense of urgency, this year’s campaigns have been sluggish and slow to get off the ground.

The UK’s decision to introduce the private sector into the student loan market undermines any argument in favour of loans.

Stephen Donnelly seems to have shocked the country, perhaps because his enthusiasm and passion for his cause had captured attention beyond his constituency.

A system that would cause colleagues to directly compete and that ignores much of what academics do is not one that we should adopt.

Universities shouldn’t be burdened by regulation, but autonomy isn’t a right to treat staff poorly.

The Irish education system, at different stages, either reduces applicants identities to a number or fixates on their religious belief.

Objections to commercialisation are often dismissed as ideological. Yet new temporary contracts for support staff reveal more worrying consequences.

Berating the construction industry for focusing on a group that will give greater reward for less effort suggests a lack of understanding of the unsustainable state of the rental market.