There are currently 1,200 'active' cases in the mortgage to rent process nationally and Fr McVerry wants to see the number increased significantly this year.

The HSE’s assistant national director for Health Protection, Dr Kevin Kelleher has issued an appeal to university students to get the mumps vaccine before they return to classes.

The number of students on heavy psychotropic drugs has quadrupled in the last five years. Alarm bells should be ringing, writes Richard Hogan

A new report into the mental health of third level students by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) found one fifth feel they have no one to talk to about their personal difficulties.

Sex education in our schools is being overhauled — and not before time — pupils, parents, and teachers tell Joyce Fegan

The Leaving Cert points have been tallied, the CAO offers made, and now the hunt is on for student accommodation.

UCD students' union has claimed the competition for higher education has now reached an “alarming level” as entry requirements for a course at the university exceeded 600 points for the first time ever.

Young people looking for student accommodation are being warned to think of their safety, before signing a lease.

Students are being warned to be wary of rental accommodation scams ahead of the new college year.

Changes in regulations could be having a 'massive impact' on the number of students getting J1 visas, according to the Union of Students in Ireland.

A group of University College Cork (UCC) students protesting on-campus over an incoming increase in the university’s capitation fee have occupied the president’s wing this afternoon.

When thinking about ways in which the Government’s climate action plan could be publicised and discussed by all who will be affected by it, the environment ministry had an inspired idea: An old-fashioned town hall meeting.

A Government ‘town hall’ meeting in Cork to promote its climate action plan was invitation-only and was not publicised in advance.

There has been a broad welcome to the news that the Government has ruled out increasing the burden on students

Major demonstrations will take place on the main campuses of UCC and CIT as part of the 'Fund the Future' campaign.

Protesters will be taking to the streets of Dublin today demanding that the new National Maternity Hospital be free of religious influence.

The availability of college places for today’s first-class pupils is at risk unless there is urgent Government action on funding, it has been warned in an unprecedented, unified statement by third-level leaders, staff and students.

Trade unions, housing advocates, and community and campaign groups have come together to call for a radical shift in housing policy.

The national housing charity Threshold is launching an information campaign for people looking for rented accommodation.

Teacher unions will be consulted by a steering group examining ways to deal with the problems schools face in recruiting teachers, the Department of Education has promised.

Tax reliefs worth millions of euro are not being claimed by students or their families for third-level fees, a college support service estimates.

People are urged to bring their polling card and photographic IDs with them to polling stations today if they want to be guaranteed the chance to vote in the historic Eighth Amendment referendum.

As many as 3.2m people will cast their vote in today’s eighth amendment referendum including 118,000 new voters, underlining the level of public importance being assigned to the historic vote.

It seems the government has scrapped plans for a student loan scheme.

Student teachers have to fork out more than €160 a week to cover the costs of classroom placements that are a compulsory part of their training.

The Union of Students in Ireland is calling for the student grant to be restored to pre-2011 levels and a reduction in college fees.

Almost one third of students drop out of college because of stress, according to the Union of Students in Ireland.

Unions have accused both the board of CIE and management at Iarnrod Éireann of “aping Oliver Twist” in their “embarrassing” approach to seeking funding from government for Ireland’s rail network.

Introducing a millionaires tax, phasing out the special rate of Vat for the hospitality sector and scrapping the help to buy scheme have all been suggested by opposition parties ahead of the Budget, writes Elaine Loughlin. 

A fully taxpayer-funded third-level system should be urgently decided on by the Government, thousands of students insisted at a national protest.

A new coalition has been formed to end spiralling youth homelessness.

Prospective teachers should be given financial support to cover travel and other costs of undertaking work placements to earn degrees, unions have claimed.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has received no information that would suggest Irish J-1 visas are under threat, despite weekend reports that the US administration is considering “major reductions” in the number of summer work exchange visitors.

Significant numbers of students are being hit with unexpected rent hikes and living in accommodation without hot water or proper heating, a study has found.

Significant numbers of students are being hit with unexpected rent hikes and living in accommodation without hot water or proper heating, a study has found.

More than half of students are spending up to €500 a month on rent according to new research