Starving students faced with college drop-out amid rising tuition costs in Ireland

Starving Irish students could be forced to drop outif further fee increases are forthcoming, claim leadersStarving students are barely able to eat and pay rent, Irish student union leaders have claimed, ahead of a renewed wave of fees protests ahead of the next BudgetThe latest round of student protests in Ireland come as many full-time college students consider dropping out of college, and look with dread to an impending Budget which is likely to see a further increase in tuition feesSince reneging on a historical pledge to leading student education campaigners, Ireland's hapless Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn TD, has been forced to commit to a hotly unpopular programme of annual increases in college fees which parents and families say they simply cannot afford Read more