Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 February 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
National Strategy and Framework for Higher Education: Higher Education Authority
1:00 pm
Mr. Tom Boland:
The way the funding system operates is that there is a basket or allocation of funding and the more students there are, the more the funding has to be spread across those students. We have a system of funding per student, but it is from the overall allocation or basket that is already determined.