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Mature students will no longer be automatically eligible for the non-adjacent rate

B1977 · 2011-02-04 23:15:52

Is there any party taking up this matter regarding the grant for mature students in college and also For the academic year 2010/2011, the adjacent rate of maintenance grant was payable in respect of students living 24 kilometres or less from the college being attended. The non-adjacent rate applied to everyone else,…

04-02-2011 11:15pm

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B1977

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Is there any party taking up this matter regarding the grant for mature students in college and also For the academic year 2010/2011, the adjacent rate of maintenance grant was payable in respect of students living 24 kilometres or less from the college being attended. The non-adjacent rate applied to everyone else, including all mature students both dependent and independent.

this distance has now been changed to 46 km

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#2 04-02-2011 11:29pm

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FF/Greens are the ones who impose bringing back fees but they're not alone, FG want a Grad Tax, they're the two most likely culprits, the other parties, it'd be safe to say oppose this.

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