FOUR IN FIVE GALWAY STUDENTS STILL WITHOUT GRANTS

Date Published: 29-Sep-2009

More county council staff are being deployed to deal with the back log of third level grant applications.Less than 20 percent of Galway students who applied for the grants have received them to date.Out of 1,925 applications, less than half have been processed to date, and just 400 students have been given the grant.At this weeks meeting of Galway county council, Manager Martina Maloney told councillors that they are currently redeploying staff to deal with the applications.Speaking at the meeting, GMIT lecturer and Councillor Sean Canney says that students should be worrying about college work rather than finance.