The Union of Students in Ireland is calling for student nurses to be paid during the current health crisis.

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.

According to the National Union of Students in Ireland (USI), colleges are increasing campus accommodation costs by as much as 11.5%.

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.

Students say they are facing a growing accommodation crisis, with every college in the country increasing the cost of their on-campus living for the new academic term.

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.

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.

At €3,000 Ireland will have the highest university fees in the EU after Brexit.

“It must be part of a broader understanding to colleges that such behaviour is not acceptable."

They say changes to their pathway to qualification will leave them €25,000 worse off over the course of their degree in comparison with their predecessors.

Far from struggling to understand the dating scene in the #MeToo era, young male college students say it’s never been more straight forward. Áilín Quinlan reports.

One of the country’s major drug bosses is suspected of being behind one of the largest hauls of ecstasy and ketamine in recent years.

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.

A bill to prevent schools from using their religious ethos to avoid providing objective and factual sex education is to be debated in the Dáil.

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.

University students are being urged to practise safe sex following a dramatic rise in the numbers of young people in Ireland diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases.

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.

An impeachment referendum has been called against the President of the UCD Student's Union.

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

There are calls for higher level education to be publicly funded.

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

A growing number of freshers experience stress and anxiety. They are encouraged to seek help early and to attend welfare events such puppy cuddling, writes Helen O’Callaghan

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

Financial advice with Grainne McGuinness

More college students are choosing Ireland as a study destination because of Brexit.

The Government will launch their plan for student accommodation this morning.

The Union of Students in Ireland are calling on the Government to reduce third-level fees by at least €250 in Budget 2018.

Third-level bosses face a severe grilling by TDs over gaps in their evidence to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee about financial affairs.

The new President of the University of Limerick Dr Des Fitzgerald has said he was "appalled" by the revelations on last night's RTÉ Investigates programme about governance and management issues at the university.