Awards for collaborative work with UCCPLUS+

MTU Access & UCC PLUS+ aims to ensure widened participation in further and higher education among groups who are under-represented, including those students who experience socio-economic disadvantage.

This innovative and unique collaborative outreach model tackles educational disadvantage in Cork, benefiting DEIS schools, their students and communities, expanding the boundaries of best practice. Together we wanted to showcase a visible, unique, inter-institutional collaboration in relation to outreach. Traditionally, some may have viewed Further Education, Universities and Institutes of Technology competing against each other for the same students thus creating invisible inherited conflict.

Together we want to project a positive message to our target group, acknowledging that we all have courses designed to attract different students. we saw the need to work collaboratively for the benefit of the schools and students we support. We believe our shared inter-institutional working model is a forerunner to how third level institutions can work together, share ideas and produce effective results while showcasing best practice and the way forward to best support educational disadvantage.

 

Cork Celebrates Lifelong Learning Awards 2021

The MTU Cork Campus Access Service, UCC PLUS+ and ACCESS+ team are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Higher Education Joint Initiative Award at the inaugural Cork Celebrates Lifelong Learning Awards 2021 for our inter-institutional work with DEIS Linked Schools.

 

Visit www.corklearningcity.ie/cork-celebrates-lifelong-learning-awards-2021 for additional information on the awards. 

THE EDUCATION AWARDS 2021

The MTU Cork Campus Access Service, UCC PLUS+ and ACCESS+ team are delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted for an Education Award, ''Best Education Outreach Award' for our inter-institutional initiatives with our DEIS Linked Schools, which showcases best practice between both MTU and UCC. 

Visit www.educationawards.ie/shortlist  for additional information on the awards.