Cost of Education Event with DFHERIS

In April, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science invited learners to share their experience of the cost of education in Ireland. The event aimed to inform the Department’s spending for 2025.

AONTAS supported twenty-seven learners in adult and community education to attend this event.

Before the event, we facilitated a session with students using the Citizens Xelerator Think Tank Manual.

This manual provides step-by-step instructions on supporting adults with unmet literacy needs in identifying, addressing, and developing solutions to challenges within their communities. We used this session to brainstorm ideas with learners about what changes they wanted to see achieved relating to the cost of education in Ireland.

After the event, AONTAS held another Think Tank session for learners who had ideas following the event.