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Colleges ‘charge back-door fees’
May 11th
THE c charge of €1,500 a year was described yesterday as “fees by the back door”.
All of the money raised is supposed to be used on student services such as clubs, societies, exams, careers services, on-campus medical and counselling facilities.
Yesterday it was confirmed that Trinity College, Dublin, is using almost €9m of the €14.6m raised in this academic year from the charges on core day-to-day spending. Detailed accounts show this year that €5.7m is being spent on student services, ranging from the accommodation office to the day nursery while €1.35m is being spent on exam costs and around the same on registration costs.
Must mature students meet the same points requirements as school leavers?
Jan 19th
Although most of the focus during the college application period is on school leavers, significant numbers of college applicants each year are non-standard applicants, including mature applicants, ie applicants over 23 years of age.
Last year’s CAO application figures showed that over 12,300 of a total of about 74,000 applicants were “mature”, representing about one in every six applicants.
Whereas school-leaving college applicants may be surrounded by help and advice, mature applicants often feel uncertain where to turn. Nevertheless, there are plenty of sources of information available.
WIT Christmas Day – what the students say
Dec 3rd
Comments from WIT students
“Anyone in WIT will know Christmas day had a few hitches this year… main one probably being the ambulances called to the College… 
Anyway this is what the Director has to say anyway, bit vague as to who is at fault (this was addressed to the Staff of the college BTW)
Third-level cuts ‘will hamper our recovery’
Nov 11th
Cuts to third-level education will hamper economic recovery, a college head warned yesterday.
Dublin City University president Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski slammed money-saving measures proposed by An Bord Snip Nua and claimed learning institutions were key to the country’s escape from recession.
The professor said the redundancies, research savings and student support cuts recommended in the McCarthy report would seriously undermine progress made by Irish learning institutions.
Paying fees ‘a waste of money in battle for university places’
Nov 3rd
Middle-class parents who spend vast amounts of money on their children in fee paying schools would be as well off sending them to free-education schools, a leading researcher claimed last night.
Her comments came as new figures showed that one in every three students who enrolled in University College Dublin (UCD) last month came from fee-paying or grind schools.
Leaving school early is bad for health and wealth
Oct 18th
LEAVING school early is bad for your health and prospects for future wealth, a senior ESRI researcher told a conference yesterday.
She said a Leaving Certificate qualification had become the minimum necessary for access to education and employment.
But early school leaving also had striking effects on other aspects of people’s lives, said Dr Emer Smyth from the Economic and Social Research Institute.
White collar woes hit college hopes
Sep 8th
FINANCIAL worries and a lack of parental guidance are keeping a substantial portion of the middle classes from college, new research shows.
The percentage of young people from the “lower white collar” social group enrolling in college has fallen, whereas it has risen for children of every other group, from manual workers to professionals.
Record CAO applications in 2008
Aug 17th
The number of people applying to third level college in Ireland has reached an all time high.
Figures from the Central Applications Office show that just over 68,000 applications were made this year.
In 2007, the number of applicants was just under 65,500 – this year that figure increased by 2,500.
CAO publishes first round offers
Aug 17th
Thousands of third-level applicants are finding out whether they have secured a place on the course of their choice.
For the third year running many programmes have seen a drop in points.
The points for courses related to the construction industry are in many cases emphatically down.
Students told not to drown their sorrows
Aug 12th
STUDENTS who do not achieve the results they were hoping for in the Leaving Cert have been urged to avoid “drowning their sorrows” with alcohol.
The 57,000 young people who received their results this morning have been called upon not to drink excessively, avoid recreational drugs and plan their routes home.