Midlands University To Receive Just Under €10m Funding Boost

Minister For Higher Education Simon Harris and TUS President Professor Vincent Cunnane photo credit: tus.ie

The Six TUs in Ireland will get €50m in January to help 'embed' in their respective regions.

A midlands University will be getting a major funding boost in the new year.

The Technological University of the Shannon will be receiving a total of €9.5m under a new 'Technological Sector Advancement Fund'.

Replacing the 'Technological Sector Transformation Fund' the Department of Higher Education is allocating €50m nationally to six different institutions.

The grants are intendent to move the technological universities past their 'establishment phase', and to embed the TUs in the regions they serve.

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