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Students will be forced to pay 2,500 reg fees (Indo)

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    #122
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Dudess wrote: »
    Exactly. Fees would make people less likely to go to college solely for a three/four-year piss-up.

    Not for everyone, no. Who has done better for themselves - a person who trained as an electrician and has a secure job with the ESB, or a person with an arts degree working in a call centre?


    Yeah students go to lectures to cure hangovers.

    The ESB applies strange incesstuous selection criteria when it comes to hiring sparkies. Not many opps there otherwise plenty of unemployed sparkies out there re-training.

    Permanent and pensionable = security? = hum drum!

    Grads have more opps


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    #123
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    Yeah students go to lectures to cure hangovers.
    Are you suggesting students don't go on the piss a lot...? :confused:
    The ESB applies strange incesstuous selection criteria when it comes to hiring sparkies. Not many opps there otherwise plenty of unemployed sparkies out there re-training.
    You didn't answer my question though.
    Permanent and pensionable = security?
    Um... yes.
    Grads have more opps
    Depends on the degree. A BA has **** all opps - I say that as a graduate of one. Sure, it's good for the mind, and if I had my time back, I'd still do it, but it's not much use for getting a job, unlike practical experience - certainly in this climate.


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    #124
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Dudess wrote: »
    Are you suggesting students don't go on the piss a lot...? :confused:.

    Some dont drink at all you know

    In other news:
    Some Gay people dont like Abba
    Some Black people dont like Rap music
    Some Women dont like soaps
    etc etc


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    #125
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Of course, but Sonnenblumen seemed to be pretending there aren't students who go on the piss a lot.


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    #126
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    Dudess wrote: »
    Of course, but Sonnenblumen seemed to be pretending there aren't students who go on the piss a lot.

    seriously wtf does people going on the piss have to do with any of this they also have to spend money on food electricity heating clothes transport.


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    #127
    darragh16
    Registered Users Posts: 882 ✭✭✭darragh16


    They need to introduce fee's...

    Ireland's college system isn't as great as it could be. Of the 1500 paid for college, 600-700 goes to the Students union. The rest goes to the research and post grad improvements. Whereas tuition fee's pay the lecturers. Any increase in the 'reg' fee's will generally lead to an increase of college standards (classes, computers, increase of lectures, teaching methods etc. etc.) Lecturers already have had the taxes implemented upon them, but they do need a decrease in payments. Also fee's will wipe out the whole "I'll go to college for the craic" and "Well I wont pay tuition fee's, so I'll buy my son/daughter a car"..


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    #128
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    darragh16 wrote: »
    Lecturers already have had the taxes implemented upon them, but they do need a decrease in payments. Also fee's will wipe out the whole "I'll go to college for the craic" and "Well I wont pay tuition fee's, so I'll buy my son/daughter a car"..

    Its the senior lecturers and professors that are on the real high salaries. They are being paid for research and thats it really. Most of them in my experience can't 'lecture' to save their lives.


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