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Maintenance grant eligibility

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  • 28-04-2010 3:55pm
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    corroonb
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭


    I have applied for two post-graduate courses and I wonder if I am eligible for a local authority grant. I've checked all the criteria and the only thing I'm uncertain about is I previously did a postgraduate course which I failed a year ago. I paid for this myself without any grants as I wasn't eligible and didn't apply. Will this affect my eligibility for a grant now? In every other respect I qualify for the highest level of maintenance grant.

    Thanks for any help.


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    jano1
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭jano1


    You are not entitled to a maintenance grant for repeating a year or doing a new course at the same level whether you got a grant for it the first time or not. Did you pay tuition fees?


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    corroonb
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭corroonb


    jano1 wrote: »
    You are not entitled to a maintenance grant for repeating a year or doing a new course at the same level whether you got a grant for it the first time or not. Did you pay tuition fees?

    Yes, I paid fees.


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    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    jano1 wrote: »
    You are not entitled to a maintenance grant for repeating a year or doing a new course at the same level whether you got a grant for it the first time or not. Did you pay tuition fees?


    I dont think thats accurate. I have a friend in college who was in a similiar situation, and he didn't think he would be entitled to the grant this year.

    He applied, and recieved the full non adjacent rate including his fee's for this year.


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    jano1
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭jano1


    I looked up studentfinance.ie and rang the Dept Ed regarding this and was told that unless you are a 'second chance' student who is out of 3rd level for more than 5 years you have to pay fees for repeating a year. Dept Ed told me that the only exception is where a student missed a significant amount of time due to certified illness and repeats the year in the same college and on the same course and the college itself agrees to waive the fees:


    "With the exception of second chance students, tuition fees are not paid by the State in respect of students who are repeating a year of study, having failed their end of year exams or as a result of changing courses. The repeat fees are payable by the student. This exclusion may be waived, at the discretion of the college, where a student has to repeat a year due to certified serious illness. In such cases, the college will request documentary evidence that the student’s failure was as a direct result of his/her illness."

    Did any of this apply to your friend or maybe they did not disclose that they had already attended the same year/level? Corroonb was in college last year. If there is something that the rest of us are missing please let us know!!


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