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Exclusion of part time students from free fees scheme challenged

19 August 2015

As the CAO offers come out, the Royal Irish Academy says it’s unfair 20,000 students aren’t eligible for grants

In the week of the CAO offers for 2015, Prof Mary E Daly, president of the Royal Irish Academy said that the exclusion of part time students from fees scheme should be challenged.

A new tax relief should be introduced for part-time students as an equity measure and to help reverse the fall in postgraduate enrolments in higher education, the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) has said.

The organisation, which promotes research and academic excellence in Ireland, said the exclusion of part-time students from the “free fees” scheme was preventing people from nontraditional and under-represented backgrounds accessing third-level.

Read the Irish Times article in full here.

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