The force awakens for return of higher education fees

The opening words of the trailer for the new Star Wars movie could also describe how the ground seems to be shifting on higher education funding: “There has been a disturbance in the force. Do you feel it?”

The force awakens for return of higher education fees

We seem to be moving towards a student loan model, although there is zero chance of anything remotely as contentious as that being announced so close to an election.

Higher education student fees for first-time undergraduate EU students were scrapped in 1996 at the behest of the then education minister, Niamh Bhreathnach. But the notion that fees were scrapped is a mistake.

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