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The George J. Mitchell Scholarships, awarded annually by the US-Ireland Alliance, provide funding for graduate study in Ireland (in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). The first class of scholars began their studies in 2000. On average, approximately 350 young Americans apply for the 12 scholarships each year. [1]
Rathdown School is an independent day and boarding school in Glenageary, Dublin, Ireland operating under the management of a charitable trust and with a Protestant but inclusive ethos. For most of its history an all-girls school, it became co-educational in 2023. Rathdown provides pre-school, junior and senior level education.
The lack of peer-to-peer support was singled out as a major issue, but it was also a driving force behind the creation of the Erasmus Student Network. The organization supports students from the Erasmus programme and other bilateral agreements and cooperates with national agencies in order to help international students.
18 September – Toto Schillaci, 59, Italian association footballer and figure in Irish footballing folklore whose goal in a 1990 World Cup quarter final match ended Ireland's most successful run in a major international football competition and broke their dreams of proceeding further in the tournament. [299] [300]
2004 The IRCSET launched the Enterprise Partnership Scheme, which co-funded postgraduate scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships along with small and large companies. 2006: The IRCSET launched the Graduate Research Education Programme exploratory grant awards, adopted a new approach to PhD funding to add to the Embark scholarships.
The ORS Awards Scheme was set up by the Secretary of State for Education and Science in 1979 and launched in the 1980-1981 academic year, to attract international students to the United Kingdom to undertake doctoral-level research. The last full awards were given to students starting their studies in 2008 and the scholarship scheme ended that year.
A young man (in bowtie) receives a scholarship at a ceremony. A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education.Generally, scholarships are awarded based on a set of criteria such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, and financial need, research experience or specific professional experience.
St Columba's College is a co-educational independent day and boarding school founded in 1843 located in Whitechurch, County Dublin, Ireland.Among the founders of the college were Viscount Adare (who later became The 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl in 1850), William Monsell (who was later created The 1st Baron Emly in 1874), Dr William Sewell and James Henthorn Todd.