Cabinet to consider loan schemes for student fees
Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe is circulating a long-awaited report today to ministerial colleagues outlining various options on possible changes to the free tuition system in place since the mid-1990s.
While one of the five options is to leave things as they are, the minister is known to favour a form of loans system under which students would pay back part of the cost of their third-level education once they begin earning a certain income after graduation.