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Do grants still apply in NI?

  • 03-03-2011 10:17pm
    #1
    PJelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭


    I'm just wondering if you can still get higher education grants if you go to college in Northern Ireland through UCAS? I hope to go to Queens and I've heard its something like 9k a year. Do grants help with this at all?


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  • #2
    MonkeyBalls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 437 ✭✭MonkeyBalls


    I've heard that at Masters level the VEC grants extend to the 32 counties.
    But not the rest of the UK.


  • #3
    PJelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭PJelly


    Further Investigation shows that the fees for me to study in Queens are actually more in the region of 11'232 euro a year.
    I hope to god theres grants for this. Because otherwise, I won't be able to take the course. My eldest sister studied in the University Of East Anglia about 5 years ago and didn't have to pay any fees. I can't get in contact with her at the moment so I cant ask her personally, but would it be because of a grant or something like that? And if so, there must be a grant for me to study in Queens?

    In an ideal world I suppose :rolleyes:


  • #4
    Cravez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,031 ✭✭✭Cravez


    PJelly wrote: »
    Further Investigation shows that the fees for me to study in Queens are actually more in the region of 11'232 euro a year.
    I hope to god theres grants for this. Because otherwise, I won't be able to take the course. My eldest sister studied in the University Of East Anglia about 5 years ago and didn't have to pay any fees. I can't get in contact with her at the moment so I cant ask her personally, but would it be because of a grant or something like that? And if so, there must be a grant for me to study in Queens?

    In an ideal world I suppose :rolleyes:

    I'm sure she would have had to pay fees (or is repaying them now). The UK offers student loan schemes for tuition fees and you only have to repay them back once you finish college and are earning at least £15,000 per year. The rate of interest is very good (1.5%) but since the fees are going up the repayment costs will naturally also increase. To be honest though, I am not fully aware of our grant schemes in correspondence with UK courses. I think the grants are there just to help with financial support through study, rather than paying for actual tuition fees. AFAIK here in Ireland, the current grant system pays for your regisitration fee and then financial support on top of that. It's the free fees scheme that pays for the tuition costs here (both are seperate schemes)


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