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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: The IT Carlow Wexford campus has been in operation since 1995. The current campus facilities consist of two separate rented sites which offer little opportunity for expansion. It has been a long term ambition of IT Carlow to secure a more suitable permanent campus site in Wexford. In the broader context of higher education progression and integration in the South East, this is an objective I...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science was formed in summer 2020. The funding allocated to my Department, as set down in the annual Estimates, is used to meet costs associated with the provision of further and higher education, labour market initiatives including skills, and Irish research and development. The allocation is provided both directly...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: My Department allocates recurrent funding to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) for direct disbursement to HEA designated higher education institutions. The HEA allocates this funding to the institutions via the recurrent funding model. The HEA also allocates funding under specific initititives and programmes including Skills funding under the NTF; access initiatives; capital grants;...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: The Deputy will be aware that the HEAR and DARE schemes are reduced points mechanisms for entry into higher education. The schemes are managed and operated by the Irish Universities Association (IUA) on behalf of the higher education institutions who are autonomous bodies. Participating higher education institutions provide the funding for the IUA to manage the schemes on their behalf.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Communications (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1291 and 1292 together. 40864 and 40866 together. The Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) for a Framework of Co-operation Between The Government Of The State of Israel and the Government of Ireland in the Field of Industrial Scientific Research and Technological Development was signed on 27 October 1999. As far as my Department is aware, there has been no...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: Universities and Institutes of Technology are autonomous and determine their own procedures for admission. The CAO process applications for undergraduate, and some postgraduate, courses on their behalf. Decisions on admissions are made by the higher education institutions who then instruct the CAO to make offers to successful candidates. Therefore neither I nor my Department have a...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: There are a number of initiatives administered through competitive call processes by the HEA on behalf of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science funded through the National Training Fund where not for profit/private institutions are eligible to apply. These are Springboard+, which has been running on an annual basis since 2011, the Human Capital...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: My department does not compile the information requested by the deputy. The provision of funding for Higher Education on an annual basis is part of overall expenditure management and budgetary policy. It is important to note that, in considering the total level of resource available to the sector, higher education institutions are autonomous bodies under legislation and have significant...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1299 and 1300 together. In light of high number of CAO applications this year, and the pressures faced by the Leaving Certificate students of 2021, my officials have been working with the HEA and the higher education institutions to identify where there is scope for additional places to be provided for the 2021/2022 academic year, including in nursing courses....
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: The Higher Education Authority (HEA) has a Recurrent Grant Allocation Model (RGAM) which allocates core recurrent funding to institutions. The grant is allocated as a block recurrent grant and the internal allocation of this grant is a matter for each institution. In the case of nursing students, State grant and fees are provided to Higher Education Instititutions from a separate...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1303 and 1305 together. The data requested by the Deputy is not held by the Department nor the agencies under its remit. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are governed by the Universities Act 1997, the Institutes of Technologies Acts 1992 to 2006 and the Technological Universities Act 2018. Within the meaning of these Acts, HEIs are autonomous with regard...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: The Higher Education Authority (HEA) is responsible for collecting, analysing and disseminating student and graduate enrolment data from all HEA-funded higher education institutions. Details of student enrolment data, including in relation to domicile, is available on the HEA website: Please note the HEA does not collect data from private colleges.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: The programmes which are developed in institutions across the further and higher education sector in Ireland are developed independently, consistent with principles which respect the academic independence of those institutions. My Department has no role in that context.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Students (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: Following the publication of COVID-19 Resilience and Recovery: The Path Ahead and in keeping with the Government’s objective of moving to a return to safe onsite provision in higher and further education, extensive planning has been undertaken by the sectoral stakeholders of the Covid-19 Working Group for the English language education (ELE) sector to prepare for the safe resumption of...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: The principal support provided by my Department in financial terms is the Student Grant Scheme. Under the terms of the Scheme, grant assistance is awarded to students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the prescribed conditions of funding, including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means. The scheme is demand led and as...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: The application process for 2021-22 is still open therefore, it is not possible at this juncture to provide the data requested by the Deputy. However, I can confirm that as of July 18, SUSI had received just over 81,300 applications and assessed just over 59,700 with just over 51,900 qualifying for grant support.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1310 and 1311 together. The decision on eligibility for student grant assistance is a matter, in the first instance, for the centralised student grant awarding authority SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland) to determine. If an individual applicant considers that she/he has been unjustly refused a student grant, or that the rate of grant awarded is not the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Strategies (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: Horizon Europe – the new European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – aims to increase the EU’s research and innovation impact by combining European partnership co-investment with additional private and public sector funds in areas where the scope and scale of the research and innovation resources can help achieve the EU's Horizon Europe...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (27 Jul 2021)
Simon Harris: As part of a comprehensive customer service and communications strategy provided by Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI), to ensure that all necessary avenues are open to applicants to receive the information they need, a dedicated email and phone line service is provided by SUSI for Oireachtas members. This was established to meet an identified need for applicants who choose to engage...