UP TO 20,000 people hoping to vote by post or to make arrangements for voting because of a disability must register with their local authority by 5pm today.

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has warned those not yet registered to vote that tomorrow is the last chance to apply to register.

Students are to be targeted in a new road safety blitz with 40,000 leaflets handed out at campuses around the country, it was revealed today.

STUDENTS protested outside Leinster House yesterday calling for a streamlining of the third-level grants system.

THOUSANDS of students are struggling to return to college every autumn because of the Government’s refusal to reintroduce the Summer Jobs Scheme it scrapped four years ago, it was claimed yesterday.

STUDENTS may lose their right to vote because of election rules which are likely to prevent thousands of people studying away from home from participating in their local constituency ballots, it was claimed yesterday.

THIRD-LEVEL students presented their demands for increased grants, a review of accommodation and a stronger voice on decision making bodies to politicians yesterday.

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has preannounced an audit of TDs’ votes For/Against the Civil Unions Bill when voting takes place in the Dáil next Wednesday, February 21.

A sexual health awareness campaign targeting 30,000 third level students is to be launched today.

Students at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT) will today stage a picket over the introduction of clamping in their campus car park.

SEVEN county councils have failed to carry out even one inspection of rented properties over the last five recorded years.

SEAN HAUGHEY’S newfound ministerial status may have come as a political relief, but some weighty issues will keep him on his feet at the Department of Education between now and next year’s general election.

UP to 90,000 students could lose out on the chance to vote in the next general election unless it is held on a Saturday, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) claimed yesterday.

SAME-SEX marriages are a human right which the Government should change the law to recognise, students claimed yesterday.

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has slammed the new €70 fee on trainee teachers by the Department of Education & Science.

The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has condemned reports that scores of college students entitled to grant assistance may have been wrongly refused by the Department of Education.

The Union of Students of Ireland has claimed that college-goers are facing an accommodation crisis due to the imminent expiry of a tax relief on rental property.

THE organisers of the country’s longest running Gay Pride event will have to deliver their own opening night speeches after failing to find a politician willing to do the honours.

THE Government has been accused of presiding over a feast-and-famine situation in the difference between a TD’s salary and maintenance grants for third level students.

The Government was today accused of presiding over a feast and famine in the difference between a TD’s salary and maintenance grants.

SOARING rents and below-inflation grant increases may force college students to drop out of their courses in the coming months, it was claimed last night.

COLLEGE students from the poorest backgrounds will be eligible for support grants more than 11% higher than last year this autumn, under a package announced by Education Minister Mary Hanafin yesterday.

THE Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has been sharply criticised by SIPTU for suspending a staff member without pay for the last five weeks.

SIPTU has called on the Union of Students of Ireland (USI) to reinstate a manager it suspended last month.

STUDENTS have been urged to apply for maintenance grants in the usual manner, although qualifying income thresholds have yet to be decided.

Up to 5,000 students from the Republic, enrolled in third level colleges in the North will be denied payment of course fees paid next term.

Third-level students from poorer backgrounds may be forced to pay the €800 college registration fee this year due to delays in their maintenance grants.

THOUSANDS of students could be forced out of their homes and into dilapidatedand overcrowded accommodation, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) warned yesterday.

A RETURN to mass student protests cannot be ruled out as long as uncertainty remains about efficient grant payments, Union of Students in Ireland (USI) president Tony McDonnell warned last night.

Spiritual rooms should be established at every college in Ireland to give students a chance to practice their own religious faith, it was urged today.