It is one of six institutions.
TUS Midlands is set to benefit from a new investment of nearly €700,000.
The Technological University of the Shannon is one of six higher education institutions to be allocated funding from the €4.5mtotal.
The money, announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education Simon Harris today, is to benefit regional campuses around the country.
It aims to provide HEIs with the flexibility to determine how best sustainability can be secured across their campuses.
Minister Harris says:
"This new funding strengthens and supports campuses dispersed in our regions.
This ensures that HEIs that have multiple campuses can boost and maximise the impact of their campuses in the regions.
Dispersed campuses often have higher costs associated with delivering education. This funding ensures that regional higher education campuses like those in Thurles or Killybegs are supported in recognition of the fact they are regionally dispersed.
With this extra investment we are guaranteeing that the same level and quality of education and service is being provided in regional campuses as anywhere else.
It shouldn’t be that all roads lead to the big city when it comes to education.
This new fund will be key to supporting our institutions and sustaining their dispersed campuses, helping them to deliver on their mandates to develop knowledge and skills, promote innovation and collaboration, and to foster social inclusion across the regions."
Midlands North West MEP, Maria Walsh, says:
MEP Maria Walsh said:
"It’s brilliant to see third-level institutions across Midlands-North-West receiving well over 50% of the total funding.
This will guarantee that regardless of where students attend university, they will receive the highest possible quality of education.
The reality is that the cost of delivering education in regional campuses can often be higher, but our young people should not have to pay the price."
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