Tag: Tuition fees
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Graduate taxes, not student loans, for Ireland
Governments usually, and often quite correctly, come in for severe stick for lack of joined up thinking. In that regard it is quite pleasant to see the initiative from the Department of Social Protection on moneylenders. Linking repayment to credit union loans to welfare payments allows low risk in lending and thus low interest rates.…
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Four (or more…) problems with student loans
There has been a disturbance in the force? Do you feel it? The opening words of the trailer for the much awaited new Star wars movie might as well describe how the ground seems to be shifting on higher education funding. We seem to be moving towards a student loan model, although there is zero…
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The financial situation of Irish Universities and Institutes of Technology
Its dire…. Grant Thornton published a report today which is downloadable here : University finances . The picture opposite this paragraph is a wordle of the text. The GT report is done by a bunch of accountants, and it reflects that. As a picture of the state of play of finances in the Irish higher…