€1million investment in LIT Scholarships

€1million investment in LIT Scholarships ensures accessibility to Higher Education for more than 100 students.

More than €1million has been invested in LIT’s Scholarship programme in just five years, ensuring higher education accessibility through financial support to more than 100 hundred students.

This academic year alone, 45 LIT students received scholarships - 26 through the Leaders@LIT Student Scholarship Programme and a further 19 via the HEA 1916 Bursary Fund - Programme for Access to Higher Education.

The recipients and the donors were recognised at a special ceremony recently at LIT. Congratulating the scholarship recipients guest speaker, Limerick’s All Ireland Hurling Winner Manager and School Principal, John Kiely compared them to a ‘great full forward’ taking advantage of every opportunity.”You the scholarship winners have demonstrated you have the work ethic and the ability to achieve in your studies over the coming years and in your professional lives, and this scholarship will give you the best opportunity to maximise that potential.”

The student scholarships aim to alleviate financial strain experienced by targeted students, allowing the recipients to concentrate fully on their education and continue their course of study. The programme has proved hugely successful and popular among students who may otherwise struggle to attend college.

Congratulating the students and schools involved in the programme Professor Vincent Cunnane, President of LIT thanked the donors for both their financial contributions and other opportunities they provide for LIT students and graduates. “While your support of the Leader@LIT scholarship relieves students of financial concerns that would impact negatively on their study, your investment in the scholarship and the students goes far beyond that. It is a vote of confidence in the students’ abilities and is an acknowledgement of their value to their community, society, and the future economy of the region.”