 The business building in DCU, a place where many leaving their students will hope to end up next year. However, as students fill out their CAOs, UCAS have announced that the numbers of Irish students accepting places in UK universities has fallen by 11%. The fall-off doubled from last year and has been linked to concerns over an increase in fees after Brexit. Irish guidance councillors were caught as about advising students to study in the UK when the future of fees is clear. There is a fear, I suppose, of the uncertainty. Economically and politically, students aren't quite sure what's going to happen in terms of the situation around fees, even the cost of living, and there are so many variables going with that. So it's making students take stock. The advice that we would give as guidance councillors would be to do your sums, do your maths, to damage your parents and work out the logistics and the affordability. Can you afford to live and if the situation around fees, wherever you're going, changes, can you actually fund those fees going forward? English universities currently receive the highest number of Irish students opting to study abroad. However, this dropped by 22% last year to just over 900%. There's also fears over outbreaks that will affect the free fees scheme in Scotland and how this effect will impact the Irish students currently availing of them. So it's very hard to predict what's going to happen with the situation around Scotland. That could change. We just don't know what's going to happen. It's an unknown world at the moment.