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quick question about 5 year rule

  • 09-09-2014 8:33pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 120 ✭✭


    Does the second chance student cover fees and student contribution charges? Or just fees? Thanks


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  • Registered Users Posts: 40,537 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Both

    But for the grant one you have to be over 23

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭Sup08


    Just 5 years from education or study, age is not part of the second chance rule.

    Second chance rule undergraduate:
    Started but not completed a previous undergraduate course and have not attended any study on a course that may lead to a major qualification on the NFQ.

    So a person that started college at 17 (there are a few) and left after their first year/semester can return to college a 23 (22 January First) as a second chance student.

    For Example:
    Year 08/09 First Year, 17 years of age. (Say with D.O.B. 03/03/1991)
    Year 09/10 No Education, 18 years of age.
    Year 10/11 No Education, 19 years of age.
    Year 11/12 No Education, 20 years of age.
    Year 12/13 No Education, 21 years of age.
    Year 13/14 No Education, 21 years of age.
    Year 14/15 First Year, 23 years of age. Second Chance Student. (They are 22 on the first of January 2014 and therefore still a dependent student)


  • Registered Users Posts: 40,537 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭Sup08




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