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College Reg fees

  • 26-10-2010 11:31pm
    #1
    Denzil2222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭


    Do kids from poor familys have to pay these ?


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  • #2
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Depends on how poor but no, they're usually covered by the maintenance grant.

    Although sometimes grant approval doesn't kick in in time and they have to pay it, but it gets refunded.


  • #3
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Denzil2222 wrote: »
    Do kids from poor familys have to pays these ?

    No. Neither do most kids from rich families.


  • #4
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Do kids from poor families go to college?? :confused:


  • #5
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Most students have to pay Reg fees.

    You could ask here.


  • #6
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Do kids from poor families go to college?? :confused:

    Yes.


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  • #7
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    I'm very lucky to have come from an affluent family who were able to pay for my university fees and postgraduate fees. So I started work in zero debt.

    I have colleagues and friends who were not so lucky and are over €12,000 in debt - but they worked hard and had clear goals and jobs.


  • #8
    Denzil2222
    Closed Accounts Posts: 156 ✭✭Denzil2222


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Most students have to pay Reg fees.

    You could ask here.

    But if lenihan puts it up to 4k in the budget how will most people be able to pay it ?


  • #9
    VinnyTGM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭VinnyTGM


    Denzil2222 wrote: »
    But if lenihan puts it up to 4k in the budget how will most people be able to pay it ?

    They won't be able to..... I won't be able to.


  • #10
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Denzil2222 wrote: »
    But if lenihan puts it up to 4k in the budget how will most people be able to pay it ?

    Well I suppose they could always do what many students have done before them; a mixture of student loans and getting a part time job.


  • #11
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Registration fees are different to tuition fees aren't they?


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  • #12
    ValJester
    Registered Users Posts: 329 ✭✭ValJester


    TheZohan wrote: »
    Well I suppose they could always do what many students have done before them; a mixture of student loans and getting a part time job.

    Easier said than done at this minute in time.


  • #13
    KINGVictor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭KINGVictor


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Do kids from poor families go to college?? :confused:

    Clearly the in first craving for thanks type....

    of course they go to college!! how wealthy is your family??


  • #14
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Registration fees are different to tuition fees aren't they?
    Tuition fees are course fees, currently these are paid by the government.


  • #15
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    KINGVictor wrote: »
    Clearly the in first craving for thanks type....

    of course they go to college!! how wealthy is your family??

    Woah - i was joking :D - id never expect my family to pay my fees while im in a job. If they do go up to 3-4k il definitely need some financial aid


  • #16
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Teutorix wrote: »
    Tuition fees are course fees, currently these are paid by the government.
    Unless you go to a private university or study a postgraduate degree (which is pretty necessary these days)


  • #17
    lilblackdress
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭lilblackdress


    I had to pay the fees and Im now have €12,000 in loans to pay off after my 4 years in college! Wasn't entitled to a grant when my parents bearly get enough in to pay their mortgage. If fees go up to €4000 my little brother won't get to college next year.... lookin sketchy enough as it is for him with what they are at now!! :eek:


  • #18
    rebel.ranter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭rebel.ranter


    It will be those in the middle that lose out when it comes to fees. Those families with low incomes will be supported by grants for fees. Those at the top of society have surplus wealth to cover their kids fees.
    All the rest will struggle to meet the fees because their parents earn too much to qualify for a grant but they don't have the where with all to raise the necessary fees. So either the parents or the students will have to get into debt for education.
    If fees are re-introduced the banks will have to respond with a suitable product to enable students take the burden rather than the parents.
    All of this will have a knock on effect on those attending college which flies in the face of a "Smart" economy. But what ya gonna do?


  • #19
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    lilblackdress wrote: »
    I had to pay the fees and Im now have €12,000 in loans to pay off after my 4 years in college! Wasn't entitled to a grant when my parents bearly get enough in to pay their mortgage. If fees go up to €4000 my little brother won't get to college next year.... lookin sketchy enough as it is for him with what they are at now!! :eek:
    Just be glad you didn't go to King's Inns. €13,500 for the year when I went!
    Imagine the people who were not from well off families. They will have that debt over their heads for years.

    But I do know people that have that burden. I'm always thankful for what I have and have been given.


  • #20
    Teutorix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Teutorix


    OisinT wrote: »
    Unless you go to a private university or study a postgraduate degree (which is pretty necessary these days)
    Oh yeah, there is that.


  • #21
    JonJoeDali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭JonJoeDali


    OisinT wrote: »
    Just be glad you didn't go to King's Inns. €13,500 for the year when I went!
    Isn't it two years now? Nice little money-spinner for the Kings Inns. Cash in on middle class aspirations. It's like a conveyor belt down there. Most that come off the end might have the qualifications, but simply don't have the talent to ever find decent work. Still, it's nice to talk about young Sarah training to be the next Ali McBeal in front of aunty Mary over Xmas pudding.


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  • #22
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    It's a bull**** charge, it should be included in the fees. I'm in second year and haven't registered yet and the county council are being useless so it'll be a while til I register. Yet I'm still on all my class lists and mailing lists.


  • #23
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    EDUCATION NOT EMIGRATION !!

    Be at that march whenever it's on or be ... square.


  • #24
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    JonJoeDali wrote: »
    Isn't it two years now? Nice little money-spinner for the Kings Inns. Cash in on middle class aspirations. It's like a conveyor belt down there. Most that come off the end might have the qualifications, but simply don't have the talent to ever find decent work. Still, it's nice to talk about young Sarah training to be the next Ali McBeal in front of aunty Mary over Xmas pudding.
    No the degree course is 1 year full time or 2 years part time.

    If you don't have an approved law degree you have to do a diploma first (2 years part time) and it costs quite a bit too!


  • #25
    AnneElizabeth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 519 ✭✭✭AnneElizabeth


    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    EDUCATION NOT EMIGRATION !!

    Be at that march whenever it's on or be ... square.

    This? http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124538357601069&index=1


  • #26
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,722 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    rebel.ranter wrote: »
    It will be those in the middle that lose out when it comes to fees. Those families with low incomes will be supported by grants for fees. Those at the top of society have surplus wealth to cover their kids fees.
    All the rest will struggle to meet the fees because their parents earn too much to qualify for a grant but they don't have the where with all to raise the necessary fees.

    No way could I get a grant, but nor does my family earn enough to easily put me through college. I am very grateful that my parents have a little bit of money put away to help their children, but the fees just keep rising. My dad said it was education or shares, and he feels he made the right decision and will get a far better return :pac:
    I work (very) part time, so that saves me from asking my parents for money.

    We're paying more money every year and the facilities are getting worse and lecture hours are getting cut. More for less. That's not right.

    I'm class rep/president/what have you so I feel like this topic will come my way A LOT over the next year.


  • #27
    Killer Pigeon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,132 ✭✭✭Killer Pigeon


    AnneElizabeth wrote: »
    This? http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=124538357601069&index=1

    Yar, that's the one. I wonder if that those 12,384 people who say they are attending are actually attending.


  • #28
    entropi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭entropi


    TheZohan wrote: »
    getting a part time job.
    This is proving to be very difficult for non-students too, like those tens of thousands who joined the dole queue this year...so how are us students supposed to compete with that?
    Killer Pigeon wrote: »
    Yar, that's the one. I wonder if that those 12,384 people who say they are attending are actually attending.
    I shall be, and I've heard that those 12,000+ are signed up and ready to go, they are expecting up to 25,000 on the day :D

    I will be there, as will many others I know. A voice is better than silence, we gotta try something.


  • #29
    qwertplaywert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭qwertplaywert


    Agree with the posters who say its the people in the middle who will be hit hardest-as stated, those with grants will get it paid for, and those with very well off parents will get it paid for.

    That being said, I don't see that march making a difference no matter how many students are there.


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