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Saturday 24 October 2020
Barring orders were included on a list of acceptable documentation students could use to prove their parents were separated.
The national awarding body is expecting an increase in applications.
…but most of them haven’t submitted all the necessary documentation.
Ennis-raised Raymond, 21, says he feels abandoned after his latest Susi application was rejected earlier this year.
The students grants body says a number of people have received the email.
Head of communications with Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) Graham Doyle says that all applicants should now be able to access their website.
The Department of Education has apologised for the error.
I worked full-time during my full-time undergraduate degree; in 2007 my mother and I became homeless. Yet I am not deemed eligible for a full postgraduate grant.
The grant is supposed to be there for people like me – people who can’t survive in college without it. But I don’t fit into SUSI’s picture of what a student is.
There are around 19,000 students still awaiting payments.
A public consultation process has been announced ahead of the publication of the Data-Sharing and Governance Bill.
You can apply for the grant online.
The students were previously informed that the authority make ‘seek to recover’ their grants, if they are not reassessed.
Questions had been raised about the eligibility of dental nursing and hygiene students at UCC and Trinity.
The grants were received in error due to a combination of mis-assessment by SUSI and the forms being completed incorrectly, and the students can apply to be re-assessed.
High youth unemployment, education cuts, and JobBridge… am I the only one thinking the Government is trying to get rid of us?
In its latest progress report, the awarding body has confirmed it’s reached the finalisation stage for grants two months faster than the last academic year.
A Sinn Féin councillor says that he had to write to SUSI to explain that €46,661 is less than €54,240.
A total of 43,000 students have a grant decision at this point compared to 6,000 students at this time last year.
In its latest update, SUSI says it is more than two months ahead of where it was this time last year in processing grant applications.
The Ombudsman is dealing with more than 50 complaints from third level students about the new grant-allocating body SUSI.
A total of 55 cases of complaints against the grant system were accepted by the Ombudsman with 34 of them still open.
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Around 61,500 applications have been assessed by SUSI – and of these, around 40,000 students will end up getting a grant.
The Union of Students in Ireland say they are “ready and equipped” to fight any attempt to cut student grants.
Some 82,000 applications were received by the deadline earlier this month but SUSI are still accepting them.
SUSI said today that they are still accepting applications and that delays in processing seen last year are not expected to be repeated.
The Irish student, who is studying in the UK, said he still has not been given news on a decision about his grant application.
Everybody’s talking about the funeral of the Chada brothers, the SUSI grant system and a worldwide travel alert for US citizens.
The United States would not specify the threat or say which embassies will be closed.
The head of operations at SUSI said that the students grants scheme has undergone a number of improvements.
Plus: how many 1 cent and 2 cent coins were minted in Ireland in the last eight years (and may soon be obsolete)?
Eamon Gilmore says that he cannot guarantee that third-level grants will be paid before Christmas, but says that ‘lessons have been learned’.
Some 400 application appeals are still outstanding, but the body handling grant applications says that it is ‘confident’ that mistakes won’t be repeated.
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SUSI authorities say dozens of students haven’t been ruled on from last year – leaving them in limbo for their college future.
‘Did we get it wrong? Yes’: The education minister admits the reform of the student grants system was botched.
While 328 grants have still to be processed by SUSI, an additional 1,938 students remain in limbo as the result of ongoing disputes over documentation.
Sinn Féin’s Jonathan O’Brien says keeping more of last year’s staff would help to avoid a repeat of 2012′s chronic delays.
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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
You can catch up on the main points here.
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