{"id":10829,"date":"2025-08-20T04:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10829\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:53:08","slug":"going-away-to-college-now-costs-an-average-of-e16179-a-year-e556-more-than-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10829\/","title":{"rendered":"Going away to college now costs an average of \u20ac16,179 a year \u2013 \u20ac556 more than in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Rent is the biggest outlay, but rising food prices are adding to growing bills\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Education Minister James Lawless has said that the \u20ac1,000 cut to fees in the budget is unlikely to be repeated. Photo: Fergal Phillips\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/James Lawlwss.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Education Minister James Lawless has said that the \u20ac1,000 cut to fees in the budget is unlikely to be repeated. Photo: Fergal Phillips<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The cost of going to college has shot up due to higher rents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It now costs around \u20ac16,000 a year for a student who lives away from home, according to research by price comparison site Switcher.ie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rent is the biggest outlay, but rising food prices are adding to growing bills Education Minister James Lawless&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[10471,10472,2107,2190,18,3847,8752,19,17,10473,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-10829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-budget-2026","10":"tag-charlie-weston","11":"tag-cost-of-living","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-housing","14":"tag-housing-crisis","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-james-lawless","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}