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Returning to college, btea?

  • 20-10-2009 2:30pm
    #1
    Cliona99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭


    Hi, I hope somebody can help me here. I'm 25 and have a 3rd level degree already. I want to go back to college next September to study midwifery. If I can't get a job between now and then I'll have been on Jobseekers Allowance for 11 months by the time the course starts. Is there any way I'd be entitled to the BTEA? Or to a maintenance grant? (I never got a grant for my first degree.) One website told me to get in touch with the dept of Social and Family Affairs, anyone know how to do this? And welfare.ie said only in inexceptional circumstances would already holding a degree not disqualify a person from receiving BTEA. I'm totally confused. Any help anyone can give me would be really appreciated.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    peanuthead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    Hi

    The way the grants system works for the Maintenance Grant is as follows:

    Everyone in the country is entitled to APPLY for a grant for one 1st yr, one 2nd yr and one 3rd year of undergraduate study and one postgraduate course.

    As far as I know as you have already got a degree, which you didn't get a grant for, you may be okay, although it's not really considered undergraduate though, so I don't know!!

    With BTEA, your course has to be a progression course, ie: a higher level on the National Framework of Qualifications to qualify. You won't qualify for that if your midwifery course is a degree level course.

    P


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