Part-time course fees ‘block lifelong learning’

THE charging of fees to workers and unemployed people for part-time college courses is a barrier to lifelong learning, the president of Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) has claimed.

Dr Brendan Murphy said it is unfair that many students on whom the country’s economic recovery depends have to fund their own third-level education.

He was addressing a conferring ceremony for hundreds of graduates at CIT, one of the country’s leading providers of continuing education and professional development in the country, as well as responding to the needs of job seekers.