NUI Galway hires debt collectors to recoup fees

NUI Galway is continuing a colleges’ trend of hiring debt collectors to recoup unpaid student fees.

The university yesterday confirmed it had hired Clonakilty, Co Cork-based firm, South Western “for the provision of billing and aged debt collection services”.

The move comes against the background of arrears soaring in recent years at the university, jumping from 53 to 979 between 2005/06 and 2011/12.