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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The fee payable by a student can vary depending on a variety factors including the type of course and the student's access route including previous education. Entry to medicine in Irish HEIs is provided through both undergraduate and graduate entry routes. Under the Department's Free Fees Initiative, the Exchequer pays tuition fees on behalf of eligible first time undergraduate students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Asylum Seekers (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The student support scheme for asylum seekers is for students who are in the protection system or at the leave to remain (but not deportation order) stage and who are pursuing an approved Post Leaving Certificate course or an approved undergraduate course. It provides supports along similar lines to the current Student Grant Scheme (the SUSI scheme) to eligible applicants who are in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The cost of including all prospective students, as referenced by the Deputy, under the free fees criteria are not available. The Department of Justice adjudicates on a person's entitlement to remain in the State and on the stamp that is awarded where permission to remain is sanctioned. As the Deputy will be aware, the fee payable by a student can vary depending on a variety factors including...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Refugee Status (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The information requested by the Deputy is not held by my Department. Refugee status of students is not recorded on the HEA's student records system, which is my Department's main source of statistics on students in higher education institutions.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: I wish to advise the Deputy that in accordance with the methodology used in the Institutional Profiles (published by the Higher Education Authority) the current academic staff:student ratio in Universities is recorded at 20:1. This is calculated based on the 2019/20 enrolment figures for full time equivalent (FTE) students (full and part time) to all academic staff as at 31 Dec 2019. A two...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Appointments to State Boards (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department was established in July 2020. Its approach to the filling of board posts for bodies under its aegis is informed by guidance notes issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, guidance which includes the 2014 Guidelines on Appointments to State boards, the 2016 Code of Practice for the Governance of State bodies, and also the 2020 publication by D/PER of an Annex...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Back to Education Allowance (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The information requested by the Deputy is not available. The back to education allowance is a Department of Social Protection scheme. The Student Assistance Fund is administered locally by the Higher Education Institutions. The Student Assistance Fund (SAF) provides financial support to full- and part-time students who are experiencing financial difficulties while attending higher...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: On 20 November 2020 I received a joint application under section 29(1) of the Technological Universities Act 2018 from Athlone Institute of Technology and Limerick Institute of Technology seeking technological university designation. On 21 December 2020, I appointed an advisory panel to assess the application and to furnish a report thereon to the HEA. The advisory panel’s report...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Caiteachas Ranna (21 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: Déanann mo Roinn maoiniú athfhillteach a dháileadh ar an Údarás um Ard-Oideachais (ÚAO) don íocaíocht amach go díreach chuig institiúidí ardoideachais ainmnithe an ÚAO. Déanann an ÚAO an maoiniú seo a dháileadh mar bhlocdheontas chuig na hinstitiúidí. Mar chomhlachtaí uathrialacha, baineann...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Freedom of Information (1 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are governed by the Universities Act 1997, the Institutes of Technologies Acts 1992 to 2006 and the Technological Universities Act 2018. Within the meaning of these Acts, HEIs are autonomous bodies and are responsible for their own day-to-day management and operational affairs including dealing with policy and procedure in relation to fee collection. My...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (1 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The Interim List of Eligible Programmes (ILEP) was introduced as part of a series of reforms to the student immigration system for international education in line with the Government decision of 19 May 2015. These reforms have been designed to: - tackle abuse of the immigration regime, - tackle abuse of the labour market, - improve the overall quality of offering to international students, -...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (1 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The information requested by the Deputy is available in the attached spreadsheet. The data given is from the 2019/20 academic year, the latest available. The data on the year of study is taken as given by the Higher Education Institutions in their statistical returns to the HEA. In some instances HEIs categorise postgraduate students as being in their fifth or sixth year of study, while in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (1 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: The information requested by the Deputy is not held by my Department and therefore cannot be provided. There are a number of external constraints which may place limits on the number of students that a HEI can enroll in a given course. In a course where a clinical or other work placement forms a necessary part of the learning experience, the capacity to provide such placements may limit the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: My Department is aware of the issue referred to by the Deputy. The matter is currently under consideration by my officials with a view to addressing the issues involved. Separately, my Department has committed to a review of the decision-making process in relation to the examination of previous complaints on governance issues at the institution. The process of compiling the records in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (1 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: As, the Deputy is aware, my Department was established in June 2020. I have attached a breakdown of the higher executive officers, administration officers, assistant principal officers, principal officers and assistant secretaries in my Department by gender, please see the attached table. However, we are continuing to engage with colleagues in Government regarding an additional Assistant...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: In October 2020, my Department provided the Department of Health with a list of Further Education and Training, Higher Education public and HECA member institutions, addresses and contact numbers. Data in respect of the number of students in full time higher education institution-owned accommodation, with a breakdown of figures by institution was also provided in October 2020. No other data...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: General Data Protection Regulation (1 Apr 2021)

Simon Harris: As you are aware, my Department was established in June 2020. I have attached a spreadsheet which shows details of the number of complaints that were received from members of the public under the heading of GDPR and data information requests since 2018 to date in 2021, the number of data information requests that have been refused and accepted, respectively and the number of GDPR requests...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (31 Mar 2021)

Simon Harris: The information requested by the Deputy is available in the attached table. This data comes from the HEA's Student Records System (SRS) and runs from the 2014/2015 academic year to the 2019/2020 academic year, which is the latest available.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Erasmus+ Programme (31 Mar 2021)

Simon Harris: While Erasmus+ (2021-2028) was approved in principle in December 2020, the formal EU regulatory processes have yet to be concluded. Notwithstanding this, the Higher Education Authority (HEA), which acts as the National Agency for the Erasmus+ Higher Education programme, is expecting to announce a call for applications to all participating Higher Education Institutions shortly. In...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Straitéisí Ranna (31 Mar 2021)

Simon Harris: Táim chun Ceisteanna Uimh. 742 agus 743 athógáil le chéile. Is doiciméad ardleibhéil é an Ráiteas Straitéise ina leagtar béim ar spriocanna straitéiseacha don Roinn Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta. I gcomhréir leis an gcur chuige seo, ní thagraítear go sonrach do...