Faced with expensive college fees– students are juggling between work and college, working 40 hours a week – to pay for college fees. Over two weeks ago, thousands of students around Ireland walked out of Read more…
Over 1,700 students at Hibernia College, a private college for training primary and post-primary teachers are being forced to pay €650 for an online Gaeltacht experience. Read more…
The USI launched the #EducationForAll campaign in hope of highlighting students who have past and present issues with the high cost of student fees and accommodation. Read more…
President of DCU, Brian MacCraith, thinks Minister Bruton’s new funding allocation model avoids the biggest issues of funding third-level institutions. MacCraith is critical of how this could really benefit the institutions when there is still Read more…
Irish students are paying the second highest fees in Europe behind the UK. However, only 60 per cent of Irish students are actually paying full fees as almost half were aided by the grant system Read more…
Nine months after Britain voted to leave the EU, Prime Minister Theresa May triggered Article 50 on Wednesday and formally served divorce papers on the European Union, a decision that would severely impact many areas Read more…
DCU is owed €165,000 in charges by just over 100 students, says records found by the Irish Times last week.
Irish students applying for colleges in England and Wales next year will not face a rise in registration fees.
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan will publish his sixth budget this afternoon. With persistent leaks to the press throughout the weak, not many surprises are expected but whether or not it will be passed on Read more…
Featured on The Irish Times. “Fees have been steadily rising since 2008, yet it took eight years for a report to consider that expecting more money of people who have less and less every year Read more…
The DCU ‘Students Againsts Fees’ movement discussed their plan on spreading their message to the student body in their launch meeting last Monday. Read more…
A look at student fees and how the Labour Party broke their promises. Read more…
Griffith College will offer its students the chance to offset their fees if they provide suitable board and accommodation for foreign students. The scheme, which will be available in Griffith’s Dublin, Cork and Limerick campuses, Read more…
The third level Student Contribution Charge is on par to rise by €250 a year for the next three years. Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin announced the increases during his Budget 2013 Read more…
Labour Party TD, John Lyons, hopes the recent increase in the student contribution charge won’t prevent students in his constituency from accessing third-level education. Speaking to The College View, the TD for Dublin North-West and Read more…
This year’s budget will undoubtedly be tough for many to swallow. Property taxes, cuts to child benefit and PRSI increases will hit people hard. When we approach the issue of funding for third level education, Read more…
77% of DCU students have been worried or stressed about financing their education. The survey, carried out by The College View on 538 students, asked how they fund their education and the impact financial difficulties Read more…
Fianna Fáil Spokesperson for Education, TD Charlie McConalogue said opposing the student registration fee will not make the problem of third level funding go away. In an interview with The College View last week, he Read more…
RTÉ broadcaster Bryan Dobson said he hopes “nothing is done which diminishes accessibility to third level education to any young person in Ireland”. In an interview with The College View following his talk as part Read more…
Over 500 students took to the streets last Monday in an attempt to persuade government officials to keep their promise and not increase third-level fees. The protest took place in Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore’s constituency, with Read more…
DCU Students’ Union President, Paul Doherty, has confirmed a referendum on funding third level education is to be held this semester. Speaking to The College View, Doherty said: “it was mandated through student council that Read more…
A student at NUI Galway is currently living in a tent in a secret location off campus to save money and finish his degree. Thirty-year-old Dubliner, Frank Cronin, is living out his final year of Read more…
DCU Students’ Union President, Paul Doherty, has hit back at criticism from anti student-cuts group Free Education for Everyone (FEE) over DCU’s student loan deal with Bank of Ireland (BOI). The deal will see BOI Read more…
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