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No Loss of Benefits for Those Who Take Up Places

The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, TD, will today (Wednesday 25th May) launch a new initiative, Springboard, that will provide 6,000 new places on higher education programmes for unemployed people. The initiative is targeted at those who were previously working but lost their jobs or were made redundant and who, with some upskilling, could fill current or future job shortages.

Minister Quinn stated,

Springboard Expert Panel 2011

Mon, 28/03/2011 - 13:56 — acorcoran

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March 28, 2011

Information on the members of the expert panel for Springboard 2011 is now available.

HEA now seeks proposals for Springboard funding

Wed, 26/01/2011 - 13:19 — jmuldoon

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January 26, 2011

The HEA is now seeking proposals for funding via the first phase of Springboard, a new €20m multi-annual fund providing higher education opportunities for unemployed people.

More information can be found here: http://www.hea.ie/springboard

85% of Students Progress from First Year to Second Year

Thu, 28/10/2010 - 10:55 — acorcoran

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October 28, 2010

Leaving Cert Maths Result is Best Indicator of Performance in Higher Education

Failure to Complete Science and Computing Courses Cause for Concern

Equal Access Audit Published

Mon, 04/10/2010 - 10:21 — jmuldoon

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October 4, 2010

The main finding of this report is that the Access data currently available to the HEA is sufficiently robust to be appropriate for use for the allocation of Access funding within the overall Recurrent Grant Allocation Model (RGAM).

Equal Access Information Leaflet

Fri, 10/09/2010 - 15:45 — acorcoran

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September 10, 2010

Each year, higher education institutions gather Equal Access information at registration on students socio-economic background, disability and ethnicity and return it to the Higher Education Authority.

An information leaflet has been developed by the HEA for students explaining more about this initiative and how the information gathered is used and protected.

Click here for more details.