Funding

The fees for each PLC Course at Monaghan Institute can be found in the Courses area of our website. Browse to your preferred course, and click on the Fees Tab.

Alternatively, you can view or download the MI Academic Fees Listing for 2024/25

Full-time learners may be eligible to apply for PLC maintenance grants, which are means tested. For further details, visit the Student Finance page on the Higher Education Authority website or the Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) website where applications can be made online or downloaded.

Two special schemes exist that may allow applicants who are receiving certain social welfare benefits to attend an approved full time course and continue to receive payments. These schemes are the Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS) and the Back to Education Allowance Scheme (BTEA).

These schemes allow eligible participants to:

• Start or continue education and training
• Develop new skills
• Gain certification at a range of levels
• Enhance employment prospects

Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (VTOS)

This is a scheme operated to give unemployed people educational opportunities without losing their benefits. VTOS is funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science with assistance from the European Social Fund. It applies to all full time courses offered at Monaghan Institute. For further information and to download an Application Form, please visit our VTOS page.

Back to Education Allowance (BTEA)

The Department of Social Protection administer the Back to Education Allowance Scheme as one of its second chance educational opportunities for unemployed people, lone parents and people with disabilities. This scheme allows you to keep your social welfare payment and return to full time second/third level courses. For further details contact your local ETB or social welfare office or visit the Student Finance page on the Higher Education Authority website or www.welfare.ie

UPDATE AUGUST 2022 – The Back to Education Allowance (BTEA) conditions are being applied to applications from people with Temporary Protection.

Yes, Non-EU applicants may apply.

Applicants from Non-EU countries, with the exception of those who have special leave to remain in Ireland or who are international protection applicants who have permission to work, are obliged to pay a Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science fee of €3,653, plus the relevant course fees. 

Note: Pilot arrangements for access to PLC courses exist on the following basis for three particular groups (asylum applicants, subsidiary protection applicants and those at the leave to remain stage but in respect of whom a deportation order has not issued). 

Applicants in these three groups must: 

• meet the definition of protection applicant or person at leave to remain stage (other than those at the deportation order stage); and 
• have been part of an application for protection or leave to remain for a combined period of three years as at 31st August prior to registering on a PLC course. 

Persons with special leave to remain in Ireland or who are international protection applicants with permission to work or who are in any of the categories to which the pilot arrangements apply, must produce appropriate documentation to verify that status, as applications cannot be processed until the relevant paperwork is submitted. 

International Applicants should contact the college office for further information.

Yes, Monaghan Institute and CMETB can provide an ICT device under a loan scheme, to disadvantaged learners, to support them with studies.