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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)
Robert Troy: 612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if STEM grants are awarded on a lottery basis; and the reason schools are required to submit a comprehensive, time-consuming application, that is not even considered when the grants are being allocated. [1320/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)
Norma Foley: ..., leaving 2,727 schools with an ask amounting of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by case basis with...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)
Jackie Cahill: 614. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she believes the lottery system for the provision of STEM grants to primary schools was the fairest way to divide available resources; the reason a lottery was held when the number of applications exceeded expectations; if the possibility of a lottery system was explained to schools prior to the application deadline; and if she will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)
Jackie Cahill: ...Skills how it is envisaged that a school which did not receive funding for STEM applications will engage in STEM activities to the same level as neighbouring schools that received funding under the lottery process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1324/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)
Norma Foley: ...2,727 schools with an ask amounting of over €25m. Given the very high number of valid applications and the budget available for the scheme, a decision was made by the Department to run a lottery, where a random number generator was used to pick out schools based on their line on the spreadsheet. The application for each school was then assessed on a case by case basis with...