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TCD reserving places for UK & NI students
Read this in the paper today:
"As 50,000 students prepare to make their CAO applications, it has emerged that Trinity College Dublin is to reserve a percentage of places on its courses for students from Britain and the North
...But Trinity has strongly rejected any claim of discrimination against Leaving Certificate students, saying the new rules could actually make it fairer for such students to gain admission to courses like law, medicine and English.
...Mr Brian Mooney, president of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, said the CAO process should be a level playing field. But the Trinity decision gave a clear advantage to one group, he said.
This is in part because in popular subjects such as law, up to 50 per cent of students can come from an A-level background. TCD now estimates the figure for law could be reduced to around 25 per cent."
Have to say I don't agree with allowing a state-funded university to reserve such a large number of places for students from outside the state. 25% seems a very high figure to me. I don't suppose there's any chance that TCD can charge more for UK & NI students than Irish students?
Read this in the paper today:
"As 50,000 students prepare to make their CAO applications, it has emerged that Trinity College Dublin is to reserve a percentage of places on its courses for students from Britain and the North
...But Trinity has strongly rejected any claim of discrimination against Leaving Certificate students, saying the new rules could actually make it fairer for such students to gain admission to courses like law, medicine and English.
...Mr Brian Mooney, president of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, said the CAO process should be a level playing field. But the Trinity decision gave a clear advantage to one group, he said.
This is in part because in popular subjects such as law, up to 50 per cent of students can come from an A-level background. TCD now estimates the figure for law could be reduced to around 25 per cent."
Have to say I don't agree with allowing a state-funded university to reserve such a large number of places for students from outside the state. 25% seems a very high figure to me. I don't suppose there's any chance that TCD can charge more for UK & NI students than Irish students?