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Tue 07 Jul 2008DCU president calls for more funding for students from poor backgrounds
TARGETS FOR the numbers of students from deprived backgrounds admitted by third-level colleges may not be realistic unless extra State funding is provided to meet those students’ needs, the president of Dublin City University has said.
Prof Ferdinand von Prondzynski was responding to a report on proposals from the Higher Education Authority (HEA) that colleges that fail to meet such targets will be liable to have up to 10 per cent of their funding withdrawn.
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