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What are the costs of repeating a year in college?

  • 18-08-2011 06:59PM
    #1
    phonejacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 139 ✭✭


    im doing a level 7 busines course in gmit. do you have to pay the registration fee, tuition fee or both?do you loose the student grant? will you get it the year after? can you just go back and do the exams in summer/winter and not go to the classes, thus avoiding the fees?thanks:confused:


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  • #2
    Dermighty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Dermighty


    Example: I do one full year of a lvl 7/8 course and drop out at the end of the year (or after the first semester afaik).

    When I go back to do another course or repeat the year i dropped out from I must do the following:

    Pay the registration fee (€2000 for most places) and the tuition fees (€954 for my level 7 degree, €4,000 for a previous level 8 i did


  • #3
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    phonejacker wrote: »
    im doing a level 7 busines course in gmit. do you have to pay the registration fee, tuition fee or both?do you loose the student grant? will you get it the year after? can you just go back and do the exams in summer/winter and not go to the classes, thus avoiding the fees?thanks:confused:

    In general, you will not get a grant for repeating a year or attending a course at a level that does not represent progression from what you have done before. These conditions are specified in paragraphs 14 to 17 of the Student Grant Scheme 2011 (pdf).

    you can repeat externally. which means you DONT pay the fee's to attend classes, so you cant attend.
    you sit at home, study, and then you pay to sit the exams with the other's.

    if you do pass, and you continue onto the next year, then your grant and free fee's will be re-instated.


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