Post Grad Support

Milk & Honey

If this goes ahead it will have an impact in the Kings Inns. Fewer students will be able to attend.

http://news.eircom.net/breakingnews/20079488/

NoQuarter

Just heard this on the radio! Quite a move, just glad i got in there already because it would have meant I couldn't attend for one!

dats_right

I suppose it would be hard to justify its retention, given the scale of the budgetary adjustments required, and the very many other more worthy areas suffering cut-backs. Really it is an obvious target.

234

Say goodbye to the "smart-economy". We better learn to manufacture things again because the days of Ireland producing a highly-qualified workforce are over.

Jo King

234 wrote: »

Say goodbye to the "smart-economy". We better learn to manufacture things again because the days of Ireland producing a highly-qualified workforce are over.

How does giving financial support to Kings Inns students produce a highly qualified workforce? From what I can see If someone needs a grant to go the the Kings Inns they are unlikely to be able to afford to start a practise, so it's money down the drain.

NoQuarter

Actually the grand could be the difference between them being able to start a practice or not.

Besides, the topic is not confined to Kings Inns students I assume, the lack of a grant for third level education will stop thousands from pursuing post graduate studies therefore reducing the qualifications of those people( I would have been one of them myself)..I would have thought it rather obvious.

234

Jo King wrote: »

How does giving financial support to Kings Inns students produce a highly qualified workforce? From what I can see If someone needs a grant to go the the Kings Inns they are unlikely to be able to afford to start a practise, so it's money down the drain.

As above, I was referring to support for post-graduate studies in general, not specifically the King's Inns.

shaneybaby

Blackhall wouldn't have been an option for me if i didn't get some grant help. It was bread and water and a part-time job as it was.

saa

They should have keep a small amount of the funding for applicants who meet the requirements and need a masters to find employment.

There are a good few courses that are very basic or vague and I like many others are leaving not able to work as anything.

saa

So why didn't they bring in a graduate tax scheme if they were going to cut all the funding, or maybe us poor folk will just have to go without.

My plan is to go on the dole and actually look for work, which might be a year plus because i have no experience so there's my grant money spent on dole...
Find work, save up for a few years then apply... I don't see myself getting a loan.

234

saa wrote: »

They should have keep a small amount of the funding for applicants who meet the requirements and need a masters to find employment.

There are a good few courses that are very basic or vague and I like many others are leaving not able to work as anything.

Engineers are a good example. From speaking to a few, in order to registered as a Chartered Engineer you have to have a masters. This profession will become th epreserve of the wealthy if the cuts go ahead.

Kosseegan

NoQuarter wrote: »

Actually the grand could be the difference between them being able to start a practice or not.

Besides, the topic is not confined to Kings Inns students I assume, the lack of a grant for third level education will stop thousands from pursuing post graduate studies therefore reducing the qualifications of those people( I would have been one of them myself)..I would have thought it rather obvious.

This is the legal discussion and the o/p seems to be referring to the impact on the legal profession. There are other fora for general discussions.
It will lead to a reduction in student fee income in both branches of the profession. No bad thing. Why should a wealthy profession be subsidised by the state in using slave labour.