{"id":385,"date":"2012-04-15T18:18:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-new-scholarship-scheme\/"},"modified":"2012-04-15T18:18:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T18:18:16","slug":"crowe-welcomes-new-scholarship-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-new-scholarship-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe welcomes new scholarship scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crowe welcomes new scholarship scheme <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, has welcomed this week\u2019s announcement of the establishment of a new scholarship scheme for students attending higher education.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Crowe said: \u201cI welcome the decision by the Department of Education and Skills who have announced new arrangements that will mean 60 students from DEIS schools who hold medical cards will receive \u20ac2,000 each September. This number is\u00a0supposed to rise over the next three years\u00a0with 350 new students benefiting from the scheme from 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis announcement comes at a very opportune time as it is getting increasingly difficult for students to meet the costs of going on to a 3rd level Education.<\/span><\/p>\n

This scholarship scheme\u00a0is designed to \u00a0help and give some additional\u00a0financial support to \u00a0young people from disadvantaged backgrounds <\/span><\/p>\n

The bursary awards will be awarded on a regional basis on the based\u00a0on an individual\u2019s Leaving CertIficate results.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis type of initiative is in stark contrast to the ongoing cuts that have been imposed on many DEIS and non Deis\u00a0schools\u00a0 that are acting as barrier and\u00a0preventing many from achieving their full\u00a0academic potential.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe release today of corresponding results for Irish schools in OECD\u2019s 2009 Programme for International Student Assessment tests clearly shows that, achievement differences between school types in Ireland are related to the socio-economic compositions of their student intakes. <\/span><\/p>\n

“The OECD report\u00a0also\u00a0highlights a significant discrepancy in the reading scores of 15 year olds who are attending Vocational schools and Private Fee paying schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The extra supports from DEIS\u00a0and other programmes are essential if we are to\u00a0bring a level of\u00a0\u00a0equality of opportunity within\u00a0the current\u00a0education system.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Funding which is currently available is barely enough to help\u00a0many of\u00a0these\u00a0disadvantaged\u00a0schools\u00a0\u00a0maintain an acceptable level of academic achievement. <\/span><\/p>\n

“Supports\u00a0like the School Scholarship Scheme\u00a0\u00a0need to be increased\u00a0dramatically otherwise the current\u00a0two-tier education system will become even more unbalanced.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crowe welcomes new scholarship scheme Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, has welcomed this week\u2019s announcement of the establishment of a new scholarship scheme for students attending higher education. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cI welcome the decision by the Department of Education and Skills who have announced new arrangements that will mean 60 students from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}