| Title: | Celt Notefile |
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1632 |
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Was listening to the BBC last night, and they were talking
about the situation of college students in the Republic
attending schools in the north for free, due to some EEC statute
which I wasn't too clear on.
Attending college in the Republic is very exepensive apparently
since there are so many young people attending schools (1 million
out of 3� million, the biggest proportion of any EEC country).
They also went on to state that Belfast was a safer place to live
than Dublin, probably true if you're counting muggings, drugs, and
stolen cars, but probably not if you're counting warfare.
But it appears that some students from the Republic have been
somewhat intimidated by their British hosts who feel they are getting
a free ride, and taking a spot that they could themselves use.
But the schools in the North have dwindling enrollment and need
apparently need the students.
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| 322.1 | Free lunch? | KLOV01::COFFEY | Thu Jan 28 1988 12:19 | 9 | |
This situation arises from an EEC ruling that students from within
the European community can attend college in other member states,
under the same conditions as students of that member state.In Britain,
the government pays third level college fees,so any student from
any other EEC state also studies in England for free.
As for any "intimidation",English colleges have been sending
representatives to secondary schools in Ireland to advertise,and
with the declining English birthrate,are finding more places available
every year.
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