📣 NEW: CECILIA GRIERSON AWARD- IRELAND FELLOWS PROGRAMME 📚🇮🇪🔬🧪

We are delighted to announce the new Ireland Fellows Programme Cecilia Grierson Award!

The Award will enable young professionals to undertake a master’s level course of study in STEMM subjects in Ireland.

40% of international students in higher education experience or witness racism, according to Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) research, but only 4% report to Gardaí

Great to meet staff from colleges today in Galway to discuss race equality

Guest speaker Laura Harmon from Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) sharing some international students’ experience of racism in Ireland. #raceequality

ICOS welcomes the government's announcement to review the financial supports provided to PhD students. The review will also look at the visa requirements and other issues related to non-EU students.

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We're thrilled to be supporting Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) and the new IFVP initiative! We are hosting volunteers, offering training like our Global Issues courses currently open, and more, like our #STANDFest22 and the #GenderJusticeNow Pledge Campaign in partnership with Union of Students in Ireland Ross - VP for Campaigns!

Minister Darragh O'Brien has received Cabinet approval for legislation which will provide a temporary and conditional stay on tenancy terminations this winter. This will protect renters facing homelessness by deferring any ‘no fault’ tenancy terminations. gov.ie/en/press-relea…

The number of households coming to us with Notices of Termination has doubled this year compared to last year. Humanitarian intervention is needed. We support the #EvictionBan .

'Thousands of people in the Horn of Africa are dying as we speak. We need international action now.'

At the launch of our 2021 Annual Report, Colm Brophy spoke about the need for an urgent international response to the drought crisis in the Horn of Africa.

Ireland has expanded it's Fellowship Programme to applicants in Latin America for the first time 🇮🇪🎓

Applicants from six countries can now apply for the academic term 2023/24: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela

Find out more 👉bit.ly/3Ezpn6O

We are so excited to be supporting this programme! We will be offering the Fellows an online training workshop and highlighting some great volunteering projects #civicskills studentvolunteer.ie

Our fellows from South Africa, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Mauritius attended the 2022-23 Fellows Orientation Day in Dublin with Irish Council for International Students (ICOS).

Great to see the many happy faces of our new fellows as they take on their studies in Ireland!

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Happy #NyerereDay from our Tanzanian 🇹🇿 #IrelandFellows all the way from 🇮🇪.

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I’ll be speaking to Cork’s 96fm Opinion Line on behalf of Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) around 10.30am on student accommodation - scams, lack of supply, high rents, couch surfing, overcrowding

Hundreds of students UCC Ireland left their lectures at 11.11am for a protest at the rise in the cost of living and the difficulties in securing accommodation. The students spread their demos over several locations throughout the campus to avoid on-going graduation ceremonies. RTÉ News

I spoke to the EchoLive.ie about the student accommodation crisis on behalf of Irish Council for International Students (ICOS)