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Zara Doyle – Candidate for Institute of Education Faculty Rep
Zara Doyle is a first-year Education and Training student hoping to represent the Institute of Education faculty. She is the only candidate running for the position.


DCU Tea Instagram account run by teen thousands of miles away.
“I thought, why not make one?” the once hidden figure behind a DCU confessions page reveals, from a place many miles from Glasnevin.







A place to call home
There is now a light at the end of the tunnel for students who have paid ever-increasing rent prices for student accommodation during the past few years.


Binging on a budget
It has never been a secret that university students are some of the most avid binge-drinkers.



Route to qualifying as secondary school teacher is ‘too long’
The six-year route to qualifying as a second-level teacher is too long, too expensive and needs to be revised according to a school leader.

USI concerned over referendum date
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) are concerned that any delays finalising the wording of the Eighth Amendment referendum would mean that students will be left unable to vote.

Two students hospitalised over bad batch of drugs
Two NUI Galway students were hospitalised after taking a “bad batch” of drugs.

Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads
Countries with a higher level of gender equality have a lower rate of women graduating with degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), a recent study has found.

DCU4UNITY host forum ahead of united Ireland referendum
A Sinn Féin MEP encouraged DCU students to support a united Ireland at a unity forum in DCU on February 22nd.


90% of primary teaching trainees identify as Catholic
Influence on state run primary schools by the Catholic church is clearly represented in research by the School of Education at NUI Galway.


People working in close to slave labour conditions in Ireland
Almost a quarter of a million people in Ireland have precarious employment contracts according to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).

Sinn Féin MEP criticises government for treatment of students
A Sinn Fein MEP has slammed the Government for treating students like commodities and called for a scale-back to third-level funding cuts.