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Ireland’s public universities have been tuition-free since the mid 1990s, and the country’s national student union is organizing to keep it that way.
More than two thousand students marched in an anti-fee protest in the city of Waterford on Wednesday, and the Union of Students in Ireland is predicting 30,000 will join a march in Dublin on February 4.
According to the USI, the planned fees could be as high as eight thousand Euros a year, the equivalent of more than $10,000.
Another update on the York University strike:
- The strike, in its 79th day, is now the third-longest in the history of Canadian higher education, according to the sidebar to this article.
- Students disrupted a meeting of the York faculty senate executive, demanding to know why the partial resumption of classes announced yesterday hadn’t been undertaken earlier or on a larger scale.
- The new labor negotiator deployed by the Ontario government spent yesterday meeting with the two sides separately. Face-to-face negotiations are slated to resume today.
- YorkNotHostage, a student group, will be holding rallies in support of back-to-work legislation next Monday and Wednesday.
January 24 Update: It looks like the strike may be over. The provincial legislature will be called into session on Sunday afternoon to consider back-to-work legislation, and the Ontario premier is hoping to have students and faculty back in the classroom at York by the end of this week.
When Sarah Palin was nominated for vice president, her college transcripts got a lot of attention — she’d attended four (or was it five? six?) different schools on the way to her degree.
But Palin’s experience wasn’t as unusual as some made out. Multiple-transfer students aren’t common, but they’re growing less rare all the time, and these days almost a third of all undergraduates transfer at least once before earning their degree.
As a recent article points out, Barack Obama was a transfer student himself, as were six presidents before him. Jimmy Carter was a multiple transfer — he enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College and Georgia Tech for a year each before landing at the US Naval Academy.
Quick link: US News & World Report has a long article out on high schools that have been established to serve lesbian and gay student populations, particularly students who have been victims of bullying in school.
As we noted yesterday, the CUPE membership has rejected York University’s contract offer, and York has announced that they will not be returning to the bargaining table.
This morning comes word that Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty is sending his top labor mediator to Toronto to “bang some heads” and find an agreement.
McGuinty is reportedly opposed to bringing forward back-to-work legislation in the Ontario legislature, fearing that CUPE would challenge any such law in court, further extending the strike.
2:36 pm Update: Today’s Excalibur article has material from York president Mamdouh Shoukri’s press conference last night that I haven’t seen elsewhere. They quote him as saying that the university’s rejected offer will be “the basis for any future settlement, and that York “will not resume bargaining until we see a significant move” from CUPE. He also said that the university “have not asked for government intervention, nor has it been offered.”
4:34 pm Update: Click here for some background on the strike.
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