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21/01/2013
'Digs For Fees' Scheme Offers Students Free Degree Courses
Students are being offered free degree courses at Griffith College if their parents will take in an international student.
The college’s campuses in Dublin, Cork, and Limerick are offering the proposed "digs for fees" scheme.
The idea would be for an international student to be given full board at a house within a reasonable distance of the campus, and in return the college would waive the course fee for the Irish student.
Average annual fees are around €5000.
"This is basically an intercultural experience. I would think what will happen from this is that Irish students will form relationships with the international student who is staying there,” President of Griffith College Diarmuid Hegarty told RTÉ's News at One.
Adding: “As part of the arrangement, we would expect them to stay a month in the country of origin of the international student. We would also like to see a matching of language skills."
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The college’s campuses in Dublin, Cork, and Limerick are offering the proposed "digs for fees" scheme.
The idea would be for an international student to be given full board at a house within a reasonable distance of the campus, and in return the college would waive the course fee for the Irish student.
Average annual fees are around €5000.
"This is basically an intercultural experience. I would think what will happen from this is that Irish students will form relationships with the international student who is staying there,” President of Griffith College Diarmuid Hegarty told RTÉ's News at One.
Adding: “As part of the arrangement, we would expect them to stay a month in the country of origin of the international student. We would also like to see a matching of language skills."
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