Irish students who begin courses in Northern Ireland and other parts of Britain later this year will still be eligible for maintenance grants, Government ministers said today. But while Education Minister Joe McHugh and Higher Education Minister of State Mary Mitchell O’Connor also provided pre-Brexit assurances on fees for NI and UK students coming to courses here, uncertainty remains about what fees Irish students at UK colleges will face. Ms Mitchell O’Connor said that Department of Education officials are working on the necessary amendments to laws governing SUSI grants to ensure that eligible Irish and UK students continue to receive grant supports for the next academic year. More than 10,070 Irish students are currently at college in the UK, around 5,600 of them in undergraduate studies and the rest on postgraduate courses. Of 2,400-plus UK students at third-level colleges in the Republic of Ireland, just over 1,300 are from Northern Ireland.

Source: Evening echo January 11, 2019 17:48 UTC