Students who paid €6k for unaccredited course 'may be reimbursed'

It leaves Dublin Business School students undertaking the programme in a position where their qualification is not accredited, meaning they will have to find an alternative way of achieving registration with CORU before the social care role becomes fully protected in November 2025. File photo: Google Maps

The Dublin Business School has said it may reimburse students on its Social Care graduate programme after it emerged the course is not accredited by the body responsible for regulating health and social care professions.

The three-year programme at DBS has annual fees of almost €6,000 for full-time students, but CORU, the health and social care professional regulator, confirmed that following feedback it provided to the college on gaps in the programme, DBS "withdrew its applications for programme approval" last month.