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irish student in scotland - should I have paid fees?
Hi everyone, I attended glasgow caledonian university between 2006 and 2010. I am from northern ireland but have had an irish passport since birth.
At the time of my studies, I was advised to take out a student loan to cover uni fees and as such now have a debt to the student loans company. However being an irish passport holder should I not have been exempt from the uni fees? Do I have a case to get these fees written off?
Appreciate your feedback
John
At the time of my studies, I was advised to take out a student loan to cover uni fees and as such now have a debt to the student loans company. However being an irish passport holder should I not have been exempt from the uni fees? Do I have a case to get these fees written off?
Appreciate your feedback
John
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Your residence for the preceding three years would determine whether you were liable to pay fees. If that time was spent in NI then you would be liable.0
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If you had lived in the Irish Republic you would not have been able to get a loan from the SLC. So yes you owe the money.
All those born in NI are entitled to an Irish Passport does not give you an opt out on paying your UK based debts if it did we would all be at it.0 -
AFAIK it's a residency-based system more than a passport-holding one. I'm not sure but I think everybody who cross an internal residency border in the UK has to pay for HE but I might be wrong.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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You'd need to ask the uni if you were excempt from fees. My (vague) understanding is that full fees were applicable to anyone outside Scotland, rather than UK. But my only experience was with Indian students.
I don't think an Eire passport will let you write off the debt - if you were eligible to receive it you are eligible to pay it back. If you weren't supposed to pay fees in the first place, you'd have a case for getting a refund.
What fees exactly are you talking about? The ~£7k/year fees for the course, or something else?0 -
All EU nationals, who are also resident in a EU country, are exempt from tuition fees for studying at a Scottish university except for students who are classed as residents of England, wales or northern ireland.
A resident is defined as where you have spent the majority of your time over the 3 years prior to study
So as a NI resident, you are liable for the fees.
Sorry!0 -
Maybe you'd be liable for full fees as an overseas student?loose does not rhyme with choose but lose does and is the word you meant to write.0
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