The Hunt Report - Student Fees and Loans and Cuts to Grants

[unspecific]

For anyone around - student or non-student - there will be protests next Wednesday to resist further fees. Young people - hit hardest by the recession - also face being locked out of third level education.

More info

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=174678195957077 & https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=264925666878318

[EDIT: Might actually require a general student activism thread for any students on here]

[PaddyJoe]

The USI president who was sparring with Quinn tonight.
Didn't have the same fire in his belly last year for some reason.

Gary Redmond

[DCon]

We should send students to Scotland. Tis free there for EU citizens

Scotland is breaking the law by charging students from elsewhere in the UK for university degrees while undergraduates from Scotland and the EU get their education free, according to a leading human rights lawyer.

Students from England, Wales and Northern Ireland are currently charged between £1,820 and £2,895 per year to study for a Scottish university degree – a sum that could increase to up to £9,000 from next year.

But under EU rules, students coming to Scotland from other European countries cannot be charged tuition fees because they have to be treated in the same way as Scottish students.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/...iminate-lawyer

[Dr. FIVE]

Talk now of TCD & UCD leaving the USI due to dissatisfaction with the fees campaign and the 78k annual membership.

Action so far has obviously been ineffective and the Union has its fair share of FF/FG running the show but ffs taking the ball and going home?
Music to Ruairi's ears

[disability student]

Talk now of TCD & UCD leaving the USI due to dissatisfaction with the fees campaign and the 78k annual membership.

Action so far has obviously been ineffective and the Union has its fair share of FF/FG running the show but ffs taking the ball and going home?
Music to Ruairi's ears

Wow re 78K annual membership as i don't blame them. USI have last chance saloon next week re court case v state (student's cuts).

[Dr. FIVE]

FEE Galway have occupied and shut down the main AIB in Galway today.
That will do wonders for the cause I'm sure

[C. Flower]

Good noisy demonstration, from what I could hear via Drive Time.

[fluffybiscuits]

FEE Galway have occupied and shut down the main AIB in Galway today.
That will do wonders for the cause I'm sure

They were all whining about it on boards.ie. Cant blame the students, they have the balls to do what other people dont...

[Dr. FIVE]

Gary Redmond milling around the Ard fheis yesterday

fair play to him

[PaddyJoe]

Prime Time is looking at plans to change the student grant system.

[Spectabilis]

I am astonished that the one and only expert on 'Who goes to College', namely Dr Patrick Clancy of UCD is not on this panel . I have never met him, but his research has been sterling. Explaining the advantages of certain socio-economic groups in terms of access to higher education or grants, he really is the only person worth interviewing.

Dr Ed Walsh? Nonsense

[Baron von Biffo]

I am astonished that the one and only expert on 'Who goes to Dollege', namely Dr Patrick Clancy of UCD is not on this panel . I have never met him, but his research has been sterling. Explaining the advantages of certain socio-economic groups in terms of access to higher education or grants, he really is the only person worth interviewing.

Dr Ed Walsh? Nonsense

Always good for a bit of colour. Never good for anything else.

[PaddyJoe]

Ed seems to think that student loans for all are the way to go. Claims that they have increased higher level participation in Australia and New Zealand where they were recently introduced.
I'd like to know a lot more about it before I'd take his word for it.

[C. Flower]

Ed seems to think that student loans for all are the way to go. Claims that they have increased higher level participation in Australia and New Zealand where they were recently introduced.
I'd like to know a lot more about it before I'd take his word for it.

The have created a gargantuan debt burden in the US that is being compared with sub prime mortgage debt.

[C. Flower]

I am astonished that the one and only expert on 'Who goes to College', namely Dr Patrick Clancy of UCD is not on this panel . I have never met him, but his research has been sterling. Explaining the advantages of certain socio-economic groups in terms of access to higher education or grants, he really is the only person worth interviewing.

Dr Ed Walsh? Nonsense

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