Website receives 19,000 student grant applications

More than 19,000 student grant applications have been made through an online system since it opened almost a month ago.

The Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) system will replace the need for grant applicants to deal with local councils or VECs over the next four years. It is open this year to those starting courses in the autumn.

With the Leaving Certificate over, the number of completed applications have risen to around 19,200. Around 21,500 others have registered and at least half the process has been completed by more than 13,000 of them, with 1,600 new registrations each day over the last week.