Funding for Private Professional Course

mogrady14 · 31-10-2013 09:41PM #1

Hi. I am thinking of doing Chartered Accountancy course/exams. The fees are €3000 for the professional course and the exams. Its a part time course so I can't apply for the Education Grant. What other sources of funding could I get?

wazky · 31-10-2013 09:42PM

Have you considered prostitution?

mr_edge_to_you · 31-10-2013 09:42PM

mogrady14 wrote: »

Hi. I am thinking of doing Chartered Accountancy course/exams. The fees are €3000 for the professional course and the exams. Its a part time course so I can't apply for the Education Grant. What other sources of funding could I get?

have you tried a Christmas charity single?

PizzamanIRL · 31-10-2013 09:42PM

Have a family member get caught smuggling drugs into a foreign country and set up a fundraiser to pay for their legal fees.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-10-2013 09:46PM

Pay for it yourself or get mammy and daddy to pay like happened the rest of us.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 31-10-2013 09:46PM

Credit Union loan?

Chucken · 31-10-2013 09:46PM

Have you considered getting a part time job?

Peregrine · 31-10-2013 09:48PM

You could try and get a loan. I don't know what the story is with education loans nowadays though..

AH answer: Do you have access to an old motorhome and some chemistry equipment?

mogrady14 · 31-10-2013 09:48PM

I am working to pay off my credit card so don't have much earnings for Accountancy courses.

mr_edge_to_you · 31-10-2013 09:48PM

mogrady14 wrote: »

Hi. I am thinking of doing Chartered Accountancy course/exams. The fees are €3000 for the professional course and the exams. Its a part time course so I can't apply for the Education Grant. What other sources of funding could I get?

seriously though I'm a qualified accountant. if i passed an exam my employer refunded me for the sitting I passed. however i failed more times than passed so it cost me thousands over the years. worth it though.

its not cheap and can be a very long process.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-10-2013 09:54PM

mogrady14 wrote: »

I am working to pay off my credit card so don't have much earnings for Accountancy courses.

I don't mean to sound cruel but... tough. You can run up a credit card bill and can't afford a course but want somebody else to pay for it. I did my degree, masters and PhD in the era before free third level courses without a grant, by working, doing without much and paying my own way. Try it. It's very rewarding.

31-10-2013 09:58PM

Usually the employer pays.

mogrady14 · 31-10-2013 09:58PM

Srameen. Who paid the fees for your course? By any chance was it the taxpayer . I ran up the credit card paying registration fees.

Rayne Wooney · 31-10-2013 10:01PM

mogrady14 wrote: »

Srameen. Who paid the fees for your course? By any chance was it the taxpayer . I ran up the credit card paying registration fees.

Running on your credit card doesn't make the money inside come out.

I've tried.

Your best bet is to pull off a bank heist, it will only take a few months to plan and if you give me a cut I know where to get an elephant for the distraction.

Sunnyisland · 31-10-2013 10:02PM

wazky wrote: »

Have you considered prostitution?

mr_edge_to_you wrote: »

have you tried a Christmas charity single?

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Have a family member get caught smuggling drugs into a foreign country and set up a fundraiser to pay for their legal fees.

Marjorie Millions Tenor wrote: »

Pay for it yourself or get mammy and daddy to pay like happened the rest of us.

OP have you considered posting on a different thread

hansfrei · 31-10-2013 10:23PM

Isn't this what linked-in was made for?

Cody Pomeray · 31-10-2013 10:25PM

Marjorie Millions Tenor wrote: »

I don't mean to sound cruel but... tough. You can run up a credit card bill and can't afford a course but want somebody else to pay for it. I did my degree, masters and PhD in the era before free third level courses without a grant, by working, doing without much and paying my own way. Try it. It's very rewarding.

era before grants?

when was this? 1925?

grants and other publicly funded schemes existed long before 'free tuition fees'.But older people are quick to forget them.

In reality the situation hasn't changed much. I am a part time postgraduate student, and most of my fees are privately funded, but there are public supports available for some students, as there always were, in living memory.

Gran Hermano · 31-10-2013 10:34PM

Quiet normal to have graduated before the early 1990s and paid your own fees in college.

antodeco · 31-10-2013 10:37PM

A/s/l/price?

Cody Pomeray · 31-10-2013 11:26PM

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Quiet normal to have graduated before the early 1990s and paid your own fees in college.

Now too.

I have spent about €50k (which I don't have), from the time I entered college as an undergraduate.

The idea that modern students/ postgrads pay nothing is a fantastical myth. I have no idea where it came from. The situation has hardly changed.

31-10-2013 11:31PM

Over eight years in further education, and I've worked throughout. Think of it as investing in yourself.

anncoates · 31-10-2013 11:51PM

An employer generally pays AFAIK.

I assume you should get a lower level qualification and get taken on in a graduate position and take it from there.

Not my field so I may be a bit inaccurate.

Fr_Dougal · 01-11-2013 12:03AM

Candie wrote: »

Over eight years in further education, and I've worked throughout. Think of it as investing in yourself.

Woah there, working?! How dare you suggest that the OP should have to actually work to fund his education, these aren't the bloody dark ages you know!

Op, become a welfare tourist for every state in the EU.

MadsL · 01-11-2013 06:32AM

mogrady14 wrote: »

I am working to pay off my credit card so don't have much earnings for Accountancy courses.

What makes you think you are suited for Accountancy then?

Grayson · 01-11-2013 09:47AM

I'm paying 9k for a masters this year. No financial support at all. It's called getting a bank loan.

December2012 · 01-11-2013 10:10AM

Honestly the only thing to do is save as much money as possible. Cut down on all spending. No coffees, no pints, bring lunch.

Pay off your credit card as quickly as you can. Switch card providers if it helps but cut the damn thing up and don't use it again.

It might take two or three years but it's worth it.

AH answer - sell some worn knickers

General General · 01-11-2013 11:36AM

ACCA level 1 would cost no more than a few hundred, no 'course' needed, just read the books & past papers. Find out from these exams whether you've got what it takes.

A lot of people waste money on courses that are more about the Uni' having an 'offering' on a subject than anything else.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-11-2013 10:50AM

mogrady14 wrote: »

Srameen. Who paid the fees for your course? By any chance was it the taxpayer . I ran up the credit card paying registration fees.

If you read what I said, I did so before free third level. My family and I paid - no taxpayers were involved!

And we qualified for no grants because my dad worked as a machinist in a factory! No car, or phone at home but we put a lot of store in education.

Annasopra · 02-11-2013 10:52AM

mogrady14 wrote: »

Hi. I am thinking of doing Chartered Accountancy course/exams. The fees are €3000 for the professional course and the exams. Its a part time course so I can't apply for the Education Grant. What other sources of funding could I get?

You might be eligible for tax relief on the fees

Annasopra · 02-11-2013 10:56AM

Marjorie Millions Tenor wrote: »

If you read what I said, I did so before free third level. My family and I paid - no taxpayers were involved!

And we qualified for no grants because my dad worked as a machinist in a factory! No car, or phone at home but we put a lot of store in education.

Not everyone has a family that can afford to pay huge college fees.

02-11-2013 11:31AM

mogrady14 wrote: »

I am working to pay off my credit card so don't have much earnings for Accountancy courses.

So why do you expect other people to fund you?

Pay for it yourself once you've paid your debts!

Funding for Private Professional Course

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