Funding third-level education: Outdated models must be examined

WITH the first of this year’s CAO offers coming on Monday, students will be hoping that the points they scored in the Leaving Certificate will be enough to allow them take the course of their choice.

But the chances are that this will not be uppermost in the minds of their parents, some of whom take to using their credit cards to help fund their child in college while others resort to moneylenders.

A survey undertaken by the Irish League of Credit Unions has revealed that 60% of parents will get into debt to cover the cost of their child’s third-level education.