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Work placement year?

  • 12-06-2012 11:38am
    #1
    jubella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭


    I'm in receipt of a grant usually (full adjacent rate), but next year I'm doing a work placement year. I've only just found out that rather than deferring my 3rd year, I'm just extending my course to 4 years, leaving me liable to the registration fee.

    My problem is, even with work placement, I can't really afford this. Is there any way I can get the grant while on work placement year? I don't even want to receive any money, I just can't afford the €2500+ for the registration fee.


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


    Is this considered a field trip. I know that there is allowances for field trips.

    I think the grant may pay for this based on the rules

    http://www.studentfinance.ie/downloads/1339418623/Student_Grant_Scheme_2012.pdf
    (3) Where a student is required to participate in an off-campus placement
    as an integral part of an approved undergraduate or postgraduate course, a
    maintenance grant may continue to be paid where the period of off-campus
    placement does not extend the normal duration of the approved course.

    SUSI support may be able to help you answer this

    SUSI Support Desk
    support@susi.cdvec.ie
    Telephone: 0761 08 7874

    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
    jubella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭jubella


    Thanks for the info! Will give them a shout.


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