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It is a member of the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU) [7] and the National Youth Council of Ireland. [8] During September 2009, ISSU modified its name from the Irish Secondary Students' Union to the Irish Second–Level Students' Union to encompass all Irish post-primary schools. [9]
On 10 September 1966, the Fianna Fáil Education Minister, Donogh O'Malley, made an unauthorised speech announcing plans for free upper second-level education in Ireland. Free upper second-level education was eventually introduced in September 1967, and is now widely seen as a milestone in Irish history. [5] In 1973, the Irish language ...
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) (Irish: Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn) is the national representative body for third-level students' unions in Ireland. Founded in 1959, USI represents more than 374,000 students in over forty colleges across the island of Ireland. [ 1 ]
Following the model of Scottish Universities, a Students' Representative Council (SRC) was formally established at Queen's College Belfast in 1897. Student representatives from Queen's University subsequently played roles in founding the National Union of Students in 1922 and the Irish Students Association, which stimulated the formation of the Union of Students in Ireland in 1959.
On a national level, the Union pursues "fair and equal access to education for all sectors of the Irish people", and liaises with the Union of Students in Ireland in this goal. [4] Work of the union has included the organising of a grant information evening to help students apply for local authority grants.
The Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) is a trade union for secondary school teachers in Ireland. [3] It is a member of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. The union represents 18,500 teachers in schools attended by 80% of all second-level students. [4]
OBESSU was founded in Dublin, Ireland in April 1975 [3] by national student unions from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, the United Kingdom and Ireland.The initial aim of the organisation was to create a pan-European school student organisation that could be a platform for cooperation between the national school student unions.
Irish History Students' Association; Irish Second–Level Students' Union; L. Literary and Debating Society (Maynooth University) O. Ógra Fianna Fáil; S.