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Are you a business owner in Athlone? Are you a parent of a child attending college, or do you want to see your children get the best possible opportunity at third level in the next few years? If the answer is yes, then this is one meeting that you cannot afford to miss. The Union of Students in Ireland, in tandem with the local Students Union in AIT, would like to extend an invitation to you to attend a ‘Fed up? Stand up!’ meeting in the Radisson Hotel on Monday November 12 at 8pm.

GMIT Castlebar and the Union of Students in Ireland would like to welcome you to Fed Up? Stand Up! a public meeting on affordable higher education.

Labour TD for Galway West Derek Nolan has said that the publication by the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) of a rent book, will offer students invaluable advice when it comes to renting.

Leading student groups, including Free Education for Everyone (FEE) and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), have attacked the decision of more than 20 third level institutions, including NUIG and GMIT, to agree a student fees loan deal with the Bank of Ireland.

The Union of Students in Ireland has expressed disappointment at the outcome of a High Court challenge taken by three students, two of whom attend Galway colleges, against the Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn.

A decision by the Union of Students in Ireland on whether to change its policy in relation to third level fees has been postponed for a number of weeks following calls by delegates for more time to fully consider the issue.

GMIT Students’ Union and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) have placed a full page advertisement in a number of national and regional newspapers branding Government TDs, including Galway’s Derek Nolan, Brian Walsh, Sean Kyne, Paul Connaughton Jnr, Ciaran Cannon and Colm Keaveney, as ’liars’. The advertisements were designed to ensure the Government honours its pre-election promises on third level fees.

Fianna Fáil Deputy Leader Éamon Ó Cuív has called on the Government TDs in Galway West to come clean with students about the re-introduction of third level fees. Deputy Ó Cuív has praised the Union of Students in Ireland for their new campaign allowing students to have their voices heard on the broken promises from this Government in relation to students' fees.

In figures released this week (October 14) it was revealed that three in four Westmeath career coaching graduates land a job or start their own business “within weeks of graduation”, said Miriam Magner-Flynn of Career Decisions Ireland, at the recent graduation of Ireland’s first Diploma in Career Coaching.

There is good news for students beginning or returning to their studies in Athlone this September; a new report has revealed that Athlone offers the fourth cheapest student rent in the country.