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SUSI Trouble

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  • #2
    saltyporridge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭saltyporridge


    JDPS wrote: »
    Has anybody been led to believe by SUSI that they would receive a grant for a private college e.g., Dublin Business School, Griffith College?

    I haven't, but I can say with absolute certainty, that no grants are available for private colleges. If you've been told otherwise by SUSI, they are wrong. Have a look at the grant approved institutions in the appendix here http://www.studentfinance.ie/downloads/1339418633/Student_Support_Regulations_2012.pdf


  • #3
    Nancy Scrawny Blob
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Nancy Scrawny Blob


    Has this ****ed up your CAO?


  • #4
    JDPS
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭JDPS


    This time last year I applied to SUSI for a grant for DBS. I didn't know at the time it was a private college or that SUSI didn't give grants for private colleges. As far as I knew, a college was a college. After months of giving SUSI all the necessary documentation and information that it kept asking for etc (those of you have dealt with SUSI will understand this frustration), they finally tell me in November that I did not qualify for a grant. By which time I was already well into my first term. But the point is they knew for months, from the moment I applied to them, what college I would be attending yet they never mentioned it in all the time they were requesting the necessary information for my application. By the time we were told in November, I had already started my course so we were left with a great financial strain.


  • #5
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,095 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    JDPS wrote: »
    Has anybody been led to believe by SUSI that they would receive a grant for a private college e.g., Dublin Business School, Griffith College?

    You won't get a grant for a private college

    The approved colleges are here

    http://www.susi.ie/Students-aged-under-23/Approved-Colleges.aspx

    http://www.susi.ie/Susi/media/susi/SI-158-of-2013-Student-Support-Regulations-2013_Final.pdf?ext=.pdf

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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