Non-European students paying over €45,000 a year ‘are taking too many dentistry college places’
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/health/non-european-students-paying-over-45000-a-year-are-taking-too-many-dentistry-college-places/a398710486.html
Posted by Leavser1
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Universities love the extra income from these non EU students. I did a masters about 15 years ago that involved a lot of fieldwork, external lecturers etc – so it was expensive. Apparently the whole thing relied on having at least two non EU students each year to cover costs for the rest of us. There was a big panic the year I started because two Chinese students dropped out at the last minute and they had about €10k less a year in the accounts than what they’d budgeted for.
Similar happening in many courses , points race is a farce.
Nothing has changed. This was the case with many medical/healthcare related courses 20 years ago.
One of the richest nations in the world per capita and we can’t add a few extra places in dentistry / medicine courses? Instead just resort to blaming foreign students who bring huge amounts of cash into the economy and often stay on to work here in needed roles?
Is that too much to ask from those who can’t organise a bike shelter or basic hospital nor student accomodation? You’d swear these problems were some kind of colonisation of Mars the way nothing has been done about them for so many years. Useless useless governance
Nothing new here, overseas students have always taken up courses here. Move on!
Welp, that happens if you run your country like a business…
When do you think it might occur to the government that the whole points system isn’t that great?
Can we stop promoting xenophobia??
There is obviously a balance needed between high fee paying foreign students and local Irish students.
But as per usual in 2024, foreigners get the priority and Irish students support it! And will call you a far right fash if you even suggest their are too many non-Irish students.
The Irish government only funds a certain amount of local places. If the university needs more money they add foreign places to make it up. Then you have idiots saying “hurr durr the foreigners are taking our spots”. Nope, the university absolutely needs them. As long as the fire inspector suas the building capacity will support more students they’ll add more students from overseas. It was the case in my medical class and it’s going to continue.
Same thing happens across the board, Dentistry, Medicine all the way to Business Masters programmes, the Universities are always happy to take on more non-EU students, they pay for the rest of us, which would make you wonder what our money actually goes towards.
Probably still cheaper than going to dental college in America.
University fees there are unreal.
Same could be said for veterinary and medicine courses in Irish and UK universities. A lot of Irish students went to Eastern European countries to qualify in veterinary (not sure about medicine but think it is the same). These students help keep these courses going, these courses are expensive to run and if they didn’t have good reputation they would struggle to attract overseas students.