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Back to education + Financing dilemma??

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  • 18-08-2010 1:55pm
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    Caoimh37
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭


    Hey there, I am currently in receipt of social welfare and have just been accepted to a part-time Post-Grad course that I really want to do but I have a problem - I have already done a Post-grad about 3 years ago - and I believe this excludes me from any grant or BTEA. what are my options?

    the course is alrady €4,000 and there is no way I could afford to live if I didn't have some assistance - I live away from home and work casually a couple of days a week (on the docket syetem)

    can anyoone help me please with some advice?

    I know if I done this course I would have really good chance of full-time professional employment. This will get me off the dole. I really want to better myself.

    My deperate thinkin is

    option 1) lie and say I dont have a post-grade already? (but what are the consequences)

    option 2) take the course and still just stay on the same casual worker welfare and not say that I am going back to college? (can u be on a part-time course and still get the dole?)

    Any help please really at a loose end


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    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,044 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    It's a part time course so you wouldn't be eligible for BTEA or a grant they are only given to full time students

    my advice would be - credit union loan, claim tax refund on tuition fees and see if a local partnership organisation can help you out

    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



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    ballyrhy86
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    Is your course in the evenings? I'd say if your lectures are in the evenings then your available to work during the days so you should still get the dole. Or if you only have a day or two of lectures you might be able claim for the rest of the days. I suggest a visit to your friendly social welfare local office to find out for certain!


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