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College Fees Scrapped

Redisle

According to RTE news just now the government have scrapped the reintroduciton of fees. Nothing up on the news sites yet (It was a "just coming in now" piece)

Great news for all really.

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Shryke

Good if it's true.

minidazzler

Damn. That sucks.

I will still have to pay for what I wanna do:(

TheCardHolder

Where did you hear this?

Redisle

TheCardHolder wrote: »

Where did you hear this?

At the very end of the news a few minutes ago, on tv..
Came in through her earpiece and she announced it straight away. I guess we won't know for sure until the morning but don't see how they could make a mistake with that.. there were a few other things mentioned too, like they won't be unfreezing the grant and another few things.

jumpguy

If this is true I'm delighted. I'll go to college/uni for free, the country will be left broke, but I'll be heading the fúck outta here once I get my degree.

Niiice...

K4t

YES!!!

smk89

oh my god!!! we won

what do we do now?
we live our lives and spend the fee money on alcohol

Sweet:D

Nice one

Thank feck.

There's no mention of it anywhere on the RTE site, the OP is probably a journalist for the Irish Sun. I doubt it's true, it'd be insane to continue like that.

johnmct77

Thanks 2 be jebus!! Is this because we voted yes?! Lol

Joey the lips

Dont worry they will get it in the budget when they put up bear and ciggerates and Koka noodles! Students!

K-9

So that's €400/500 extra on the Registration fee then. Nice one.

Keano

I got my 4 years for free, I don't care about the rest of you folk :P

Only kidding - hope it is true but what takes it place...

ejmaztec

Keano A Legend wrote: »

I got my 4 years for free, I don't care about the rest of you folk :P

Only kidding - hope it is true but what takes it place...

Very bad degrees that cost €10 on the internet.

Keano

ejmaztec wrote: »

Very bad degrees that cost €10 on the internet.

I'll have to get one of them

What I was referring to was that if they are not reintroducing college fees then some other area of society is going to feel the pain now

Bluehair

Confab wrote: »

There's no mention of it anywhere on the RTE site, the OP is probably a journalist for the Irish Sun. I doubt it's true, it'd be insane to continue like that.

It was only confirmed within the last hour so no doubt it will be made more official in the morning.

smk89

Keano A Legend wrote: »

then some other area of society is going to feel the pain now

Oh woe betide if bankers are punished

Sea Sharp

It just means more job competition for us graduates 4 years down the line. :cool:

kwyjibot

It sounds like good news at first, but I'd expect registration and exam fees to keep shooting up while grants go the other way - the money has to come from somewhere in the end.

OPENROAD

kwyjibot wrote: »

It sounds like good news at first, but I'd expect registration and exam fees to keep shooting up while grants go the other way - the money has to come from somewhere in the end.

+1

And the country has none at the moment so it will definitely see cuts elsewhere.

Jet Black

Great news, thank god..

Students still are wasters though.

ejmaztec

I'm assuming that it's part of the snot-nosed Green's blackmail package that their party will have to agree to later today, so that that they can lengthen their first and last time in government.

loveissucide

I can't find anything online confirming this glorious rumour.

Redisle

Think it's pretty much part of this package --
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1009/politics2.html

Which says

"The Green party leader said 'we hope to present full details of the revised programme to our Green Party members and to the Irish people tomorrow morning.'"

I guess someone just leaked part of this to RTE news just before it finished up earlier..

samf

This seems to be true!!

http://www.examiner.ie/home/college-fees-set-to-be-parked-in-deal-103043.html

- A commitment to "park" the reintroduction of third-level fees. Although the various proposals for a "student contribution scheme" won’t be abandoned completely, they will be "kicked to touch" to a strategy group for consideration – and won’t be introduced during the lifetime of the Government.

donmeister

Thank fuck!!

grenache

jumpguy wrote: »

If this is true I'm delighted. I'll go to college/uni for free,

You still have to pay E1650 registration and capitation fees.

nibtrix

Joey the lips wrote: »

Dont worry they will get it in the budget when they put up bear and ciggerates and Koka noodles! Students!

Let the bears pay the bear tax!

sugarman wrote: »

Brilliant news, hope its true. Means i'll actually be able to go on and do amy Honours degree now... if i want to:P whoopah!

Because instead of spending your money on fees you can spend it on something nice for Amy??