free fees for irish people in scottish universities...?

cyber veg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17900220

I'm from Republic all my life with an irish passport. does this count for me?

theteal

the gf did her nursing degree in abertay uni, dundee. we didn't pay fees. i know of many others from ireland who did the same, some got grants from ireland too

Togepi

Yeah we don't have to pay fees over there unless they've changed it recently. The registration costs up to around £2,000 though.

finality

That's not news for us in the republic really, just a bit of ambiguity around NI students it seems. But yeah, free for us, that's why I applied to Scotland and not England.

bfocusd

Any engineers I know travel to Scotland to train, they've been back and forth since 07, even with flights and accommodation it's cheaper

Mysteriouschic

Yeah the the fees are free for rep Ireland . I would've applied to a uni there but I only liked thr courses in the English unis which I looked at applied there even though the fees aren't free.Scotland looks really nice though .

cyber veg

thanks all

work.inprocess

Yeah they changed the rules last year, my friends thought they were going to get stung by it, it's free fees for Non-English EU Nationals so having Irish nationality exempts you from paying fees in Scotland

jos360

I applied for UoAb this year and I know for definite that there is absolutely no fees. If you're irish, you don't even have to pay the 2-3k registration fee

Its absolutely free with an irish pasport, just don't take dual citizenship or you'll be paying reg fees every year

jos360

Togepi wrote: »

Yeah we don't have to pay fees over there unless they've changed it recently. The registration costs up to around £2,000 though.

No reg fee for irish starting this year

jos360

They emailed this to me

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/undergraduate/scotland-eu.php