28 March, 2024
Scholarships for TUS Students
By Maura O'Shea
Posted: 12 April, 2022
L-R HEA CEO Dr Alan Wall, Limerick Senior Hurling Manager, John Kiely, scholarship recipient Paul O’Heaney, scholarship recipient Sandra Miller, TUS President Professor Vincent Cunnane.
Thirty students from the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) have been awarded scholarships at a special ceremony at its Limerick campus today (Tuesday, April 12).
Twenty of the scholarships are from the Higher Education Authority’s 1916 Bursary Fund and ten are through the Leaders@TUS programme set up by the TUS Foundation.
The objective of both schemes is to provide access to college for students who otherwise would not be able to pursue higher education.
CEO of the Higher Education Authority, Dr Alan Wall congratulated the 30 scholarship recipients in TUS.
“The 1916 Bursary Fund is a key pillar underpinning the National Access Plan and in supporting students from a diversity of backgrounds to access, participate and succeed in higher education,” he said.
“In the current academic year, the 1916 Bursary Fund has expanded with over 800 students nationwide receiving a bursary of some kind. I would offer my congratulations to this year’s recipients and wish them all the very best in their studies,” he added.
A combined €1.6m has been invested in scholarships for TUS students through the Leaders@TUS programme and the HEA’s 1916 Bursary.
TUS is Ireland’s first transregional university and third technological university. On October 1, 2021 Limerick Institute of Technology and Athlone Institute of Technology ceased to exist and came together to form TUS.
TUS comprises a student population of more than 14,000 and a staff of approximately 2,000 people working full-time and part-time across an extensive footprint spanning six campuses in Athlone, Limerick (Moylish and Limerick School of Art and Design), Clonmel, Ennis and Thurles.
L-R Limerick Senior Hurling Manager, John Kiely, scholarship recipient Paul O’Heaney, Mayor of Limerick Cllr Daniel Butler, TUS President Professor Vincent Cunnane, scholarship recipient Sandra Miller, HEA CEO Dr Alan Wall.
A combined €1.6m has been invested in scholarships for TUS students through the Leaders@TUS programme and the HEA’s 1916 Bursary.
TUS is Ireland’s first transregional university and third technological university. On October 1, 2021 Limerick Institute of Technology and Athlone Institute of Technology ceased to exist and came together to form TUS.
TUS comprises a student population of more than 14,000 and a staff of approximately 2,000 people working full-time and part-time across an extensive footprint spanning six campuses in Athlone, Limerick (Moylish and Limerick School of Art and Design), Clonmel, Ennis and Thurles.
