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CAO first round points, 2010

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Given that CAO.ie seems to be sporadically up and down for most people this morning I thought it might be helpful if I copied the document and put it up on my own webspace to try and distribute the workload.

The first round points can be accessed at http://gavreilly.com/cao2010.

Disclaimer: This comes with no guarantees of accuracy, etc etc. Just saved and re-uploaded the document from the CAO’s website.

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August 23rd, 2010 at 10:23 am

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Note to Brian Hayes:

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The “Australian Model” of college payment – where the Government lends you your fees, and you pay them back once you reach an income threshold, is NOT a fee-free scheme, despite what you might have insisted on Pat Kenny’s radio show yesterday.

I wasn’t one of the 15,000 out on the streets today – academia saw to that – but being from a family that has taken two major pay cuts in the last twelve months, and with a little brother 18 months from college, fees will see him probably attending a university in Scotland – and maybe not coming back.

The Brain Drain is back, people. And it’s not my generation’s fault.

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February 4th, 2009 at 11:25 pm

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