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THE NUMBER OF students from India studying at third-level in Ireland is set to double.
The Minister for Jobs, Richard Bruton, said 2,000 Indian students are expected to be studying in Ireland by the end of next year, with a strategy in place to grow the number to more than 5,000 over the next five years.
The majority of the students will be at advanced post-graduate level, the Minister said.
The government and third-level institutes have been pushing to increase the number of students from outside the EU in recent years as they have to pay higher fees than Irish and other EU students.
Enterprise Ireland said the five-year plan will see students will bring in around €50 million in direct income in fees with another €50 million in spending on accommodation and other related expenditure.
Minister Bruton said international students have a “significant impact” on the Irish economy and can help to create new jobs, with around 13 new jobs created for every 100 international students that study in Ireland.
“These Indian students also play an important role in deepening the business, cultural, education and research ties between India and Ireland,” said Bruton. “International education is a sector where Ireland can really excel and the progress being made by our colleges in the Indian market is tremendously encouraging”.
Minister Bruton made the announcement during a 5-day trade and investment mission to India.
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Ex staff who use insider information should be jailed as the criminals they are
Much, much easier said than done in the real world. Near impossible in Ireland. Sure we couldn’t even manage convictions against the Anglo boys who pretty much admitted market manipulation.
Will they get locked up I guess not !
Have not being reading about those who are trying to hide assets being prosecuted?
Considering most of these developers have top financial and legal advisors and considering they had very little to gain by informing Nama about the full extent of their assets , you would have to wonder what the full amount of assets salted away by developers was , easily a multiple of the 800million anyway I’ve no doubt
But how many who owe Nama money, are still buying property off Nama ? It’s all a game…
In fact they should make Nama: the board game. The Go to Jail card would be a hundred Euro note.
Figure should be ten fold.
They have “clawed back ” from people who did not put it beyond reach…
I’m suprised they don’t have them sign an agreement to barring them using the information.
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