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GRADUATES WOULD face extra PRSI charges, to pay partly for the cost of their third-level education, under Fine Gael proposals published yesterday.

Under the plan, future graduates – but not those currently in third level – would pay for 30 per cent of the cost of educating them. Student registration fees, now running at €1,500 a year, would be abolished.