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AnSionnachRua  ·  4352 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Germany bucks global trends, abolishing tuition

Now I just wish Ireland would return to having no fees. We still nominally have free education at undergrad level, except you have to pay an annual "registration fee" of €2000. It has shot up in recent years - it was €1500 last year, and before that €900 - when fees were originally abolished back in the 1990s it was, I think, the equivalent of €180. So it's pretty much ten times higher now.