Less well-off students doing better than peers

STUDENTS from disadvantaged backgrounds are doing better at University College Cork than the general student population.

Research among students who received supports under a UCC programme to help those from less well-off homes and communities shows they have outperformed and maintained a higher exam success rate than all other students since 2004.

UCC Plus+ was set up in 1996 to increase the number of students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds enrol and graduate from the college.