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Minister rules out student loan scheme for higher education
Independent.ie 01 May 2021
Independent.ie.
The minister has previously indicated that he does not favour loans, but today he was very clear that they will not be part of the solution to the funding issue in higher education. Harris confirmed to a Seanad committee that “student loans won’t be a direction we will be going in”.
The government is awaiting an economic analysis of the funding options for higher education from a European Commission expert body before deciding the next step in putting the sector on a sustainable financial footing. The outcome of the EU review is expected by June.
Doctors’ offspring hold grip over medical school places
Independent.ie 25 April 2021
The strong grip that doctors’ families hold over places in Irish medical schools is highlighted in a new analysis which shows how children of doctors disproportionately fill the limited number of places in university medicine courses, writes Katherine Donnelly for the
Independent.ie.
Among first-year students with one parent a doctor, 20% chose medicine and where both parents are doctors, it rises to 33%. The figures emerged in an analysis of parental occupations of 67,000 entrants to higher education for the three years from 2015 to 2017.
The extent to which the children of doctors dominate medical schools in Ireland was highlighted in the analysis, which was undertaken by Victor Pigott, senior statistics manager at the Higher Education Authority (HEA) as part of broader research work still under way. The HEA research is focusing on the study choices of students from disadvantaged bac