Category: TCDRU

• Apologize to students for the unclear and late communication concerning the re-opening plan, which conveyed a lack of care for students’ needs and a preoccupation with increased revenues.
• Provide more in-person lectures through using TCD’s unused real estate properties to hold classes provided the Covid-19 regulations allow, or alternatively, refund students for the loss of their in-person tuition and the educational experience that they paid for in 2021-2022, per module. Return or Refund!
  • All lectures below 150 should be in-person. All tutorials should be in person. 
  • Do the best to ensure that timetables do not have in-person and online classes mixed on the same day.
• Work together with the TCD Students’ Union, Graduate Students’ Union, IFUT and lecturers to find a solution for handing over copyright of recorded lectures to lecturers, so as to enact a democratically-approved policy of courses being recorded for inclusivity, mental health reasons and for students with extenuating circumstances who otherwise can’t come back on-campus.
  • This should be a personal choice, especially with the unavailability of accommodation and many students  commuting, and should require no justification. This will also reduce stress for on-campus facilities.
• Students living in Trinity-owned accommodation should be allowed to have overnight guests and host guests as per government policy. 
• Library capacity to operate at close to full capacity and students shouldn’t have to book in, the same for sports clubs and societies. They should also follow their pre-covid opening and closing hours, and time allowed to spend in the library should not be limited.  
• Free repeats for those who failed last year due to the difficulties associated with Covid-19. 
• Refund of the student contribution fee from last year for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
• Increase mental health spending to fix 40+ days wait times at the counselling services.
• As a compensation for the disregard of students during the pandemic, TCD should give us access to ALL recorded lectures and materials from our respective Schools, so as to make up for the loss of our education (due to its decline in quality due to online learning) with access and opportunity for more education. 

This list of demands was written collectively by Students 4 Change, TCDRU, TCD F2F and the feedback of students. It also incorporates the demands of TCDSU as listed in their press release on the 14th of September and that of the postgraduate demands as outlined in the GSU press release on the 19th of September.