€2k bursaries for university students who lost grant

University College Cork is to offer €2,000 bursaries to postgraduate students who may have lost funding following changes to the student grant scheme announced in the budget.

UCC said it would not limit the number of awards because supplying suitably qualified graduates was one of its actions to support the Government’s action plan for jobs.

There has been a substantial increase in the number of postgraduate students in Ireland in recent years.