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FREE FEES SCHEME

  • 07-08-2011 7:28am
    #1
    Changel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 ✭


    So, I was wodering if I am eligible for the free fees scheme and a grant starting the 2012/2013 class periods.

    The story goes like this:

    In 2010 after my LC, I decided to take a BSc. 4-year hospitality course at an Institute. Because I was not an EU citizen, I had to pay tuition fee + contribution fee. I was not eligible for grant as well so I did not have it.
    This summer may 2011, I finished my first year and my parent was also granted naturalisation so now I am eligible to apply for a grant but I still have to pay contribution fee becaue I have to be the one that is naturalised to receive the free fees scheme.
    Now, I am planning on quitting my current course and pursue a fetac level 5 in pre-nursing. It takes one year to complete. So it should be over next year 2012 if I go that path. After I finish my fetac, I am going to pursue a BSc. in Nursing and by that time I assume I have gotten my naturalisation so I should be able to get the free fees scheme. But because I did not finish my first undergrad course and took fetac lvl 5 for a year, am I not eligible for the free fees scheme and grant any more?

    Appreciate if someone replies. I'm really confused right now if I should just continue my current course and apply for a grant OR pursue nursing but having to pay very high fees.

    (P.S. I like my current course but I recently realised that I want to pursue nursing instead. It was my first choice in the CAO but did not get the points.)


Comments

  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,156 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    You might be better off going into a citizens information centre or your college to find 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



  • #3
    ResearchWill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭ResearchWill


    Interesting question, the usual rules with free fees, is one degree and one post grad. If you do a full degree and pay for it you are not entitled to another, even if you paid for first. But if you only complete first year then you do another degree you will have to pay fees for first year but will get free fees for other years. Also as you hope to have your citizenship by next year and considering the minister has said all applications will take 6 months as opposed to 3 plus years, that is likely. If you have to pay any fees they will be at the reduced rate, full economic fees paid by non EU are far more than Irish/EU rate. In relation to level 5 course my understanding is that it's only if you have done a course at the same level effects fees, so level 8 course paid for and do another level 8 then no free fees.

    Also remember all of this could change in next budget.

    I would also say, if you start the Bsc and you are unhappy with any decision of the college or other party re fees, contact your students union, most have a local solicitor who they have arrangments with who will have a look at the case.


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