A County Down student who has been offered a place to study a musicology masters at a University of Oxford college says he fears he will have to turn it down as he cannot afford it.
He says he has been offered a place at Wadham College but that he must show that he will have more than £30,000 available for the next academic year.“I have won a place to study musicology at Wadham College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford," he said. " It is just an impossible situation for me," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme on Thursday.Mr Reilly said student loan company Student Finance NI provides "a maximum of £6,500 to postgraduates - and that only goes towards the course costs, the actual fee, not any living expenses at all.Mr Reilly said his father is a postman and his mother works part-time in a supermarket, and that his family does not "have £30,000 just to throw about".
“The amount of post-graduate funding available for students from Northern Ireland is substantially lower than anywhere else in the UK," he said.
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