A Student’s Union in Galway has reported ” a number” of incidents that involved students paying large sums of money in deposits to ‘landlords’ by bank tranfers. In some of these occasions after paying the deposit the ‘landlord’ had become uncontactable. With a shortage of student accommodation in Galway – students are being pressured into […]
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Budget 2015 : Some IMF Suggestions
The last of the so called “austerity budgets” is due in October – and it looks like another €2 billion of savings will have to be made. This will mean increases in taxation and more cuts to public spending. This all comes after the Property Tax , Water Charges , USC and cuts to welfare […]
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Student Contribution Still Increasing to €2750 in 2014
Just because there was no mention of changes to third level fees in Budget 2014 – it doesn’t mean thay won’t be going up. The government already had that covered in Budget 2013! In Budget 2013 they announced that the Student contribution (or registration fee ) would be rising by €250 in 2014 and again […]
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University Tuition Fees on IMF Wishlist
Everyone probably realises by now that the IMF are telling the Irish government how to run the country. It was the IMF that wanted a Property Tax and the IMF pushed in the Water Charges too. The Personal Insolvency legislation has been instigated by the IMF and the IMF probably brought about the Property Price […]
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Education Cuts in #Budget13
These are some of the spending cuts announced in the education area in Budget 2013. The cut to funding of fee paying schools was highlighted before the budget – and a small cut is been made to the roughly €100 million given to these schools. The pupil teacher ratio used to calculate funding for fee […]
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