Government Laptop Scheme - Applications Closes 7th October

Event Date:26 September 2022 - 26 September 2022
Event Time:17.00 pm
Venue: MTU Kerry Campus
Organised by: Access Office

GOVERNMENT LAPTOP SCHEME

As part of the package of COVID supports for higher and further education institutions, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has allocated funding to support disadvantaged students in the higher education sector in accessing ICT devices.

Under this scheme, undergraduate or postgraduate students may be eligible to receive a laptop, on long-term loan, in order to assist with online learning.

The ICT Government Laptop scheme is available to you this academic year if you need to borrow a laptop for your studies and meet the eligibility criteria. This scheme is open to new and continuing students.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be eligible for a laptop you must be:

• must be a first-time new entrant to higher education
• registered as a full or part-time student in 2022-23
• from a low-income household, with an annual reckonable income not exceeding €50,840* Gross. (*Reckonable income of up to €55,765 in households with between 4 - 7 dependent children OR Reckonable income of up to €60,455 in households of 8 or more dependent children)

In all cases, MTU Kerry Campus must be satisfied that a student who receives a device under this grant has demonstrated a verifiable need for such a device e.g. they are from one of the identified target groups and they or their family do not have the means to purchase such a device themselves.

International, non-EU fee-paying students would not be considered eligible for support under this Grant.

MAKING AN APPLICATION:

For more information and the online application form, please click on the link below.  Applications will close on Friday, 7th October.

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