How to help your child land a scholarship

There’s not a lot of information out there about second and third level scholarships. So Aileen Lee has been doing some research.

As parents plan for their children’s move from primary to secondary school and Leaving Cert pupils deliberate over their third-level choices, one common denominator looms on the horizon – the cost of education.

Last year, a Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) study found that 79% of parents support their children financially through college, contributing €428 per month to cover an individual child’s college costs and that 72% of family budgets have been adversely affected by the third-level registration fee which now stands at €3,000.