Election season, wedding season, and AMLE discussion.

Election season, wedding season, and AMLE discussion.

The Irish Federation for University Teachers (IFUT) General Secretary, Frank Jones, has called for an immediate increase in core funding for higher education, as well as the implementation of a binding, multi-annual plan to close the sector’s funding shortfall. Jones made the remarks while speaking to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, yesterday, November 12, alongside representatives of Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn (AMLÉ) and the Postgraduate Workers’ Organisation (PWO), among others.

Staff from the Library of Congress will be in Nashville, exhibiting and presenting, at the annual conference of the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), November 5-6, 2026. Visit us in booth 304/306 on the exhibit floor and learn about the Library’s programs and resources for teachers.

Today over 10,000 protesters rallied outside the Dáil to call on the Irish government to sanction Israel, and to mark three years since the beginning of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Members of TCDSU/AMLCT, Trinity BDS and AMLÉ were in attendance. The protest, organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), saw demonstrators march from the Garden of Remembrance to Leinster House in the 21st such national mobilisation since October 2023.

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The Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) is pleased to announce Robert Balfanz, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and Director of the Everyone graduates Center, as a recipient of the John H. Lounsbury Award for Distinguished Achievement in Middle Level Education.

Hundreds of students from across the country are protesting in Dublin, demanding greater Government investment in higher education.

Today thousands of students marched from the Garden of Remembrance to the Dáil to protest the cost of college in Ireland.  The demonstration comes ahead of Budget 2027, the national plan for tax and public spending. The protest has been held annually for over a decade, organised by Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn (AMLÉ), and saw participants from all across the country, although numbers differed every year. 

Trinity students will be permitted to miss lectures, tutorials and laboratories on Thursday to take part in a national student walkout organised by Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn (AMLÉ), formerly known as USI (Union of Students in Ireland), to protest what it says is a lack of adequate State investment in higher education. The walkout is scheduled to take place from 12 noon to 3pm on October 1, less than a week before Budget 2027 is announced on October 6.