UCC's Project under the HEA's Programme for Access to Higher Education (PATH)

This three-year funding initiative (2017-2020) aims to improve Equity of Access to students who have been traditionally under-represented in teaching.

 These students include:

• Students with a disability
• Students from the Irish Traveller community 
• Students from other ethnic minorities
• Students from target socio-economic groups
• Mature students (undergraduate only)
• Students who are lone parents

 At UCC we aim to increase participation of these students in our initial teacher education courses in three ways:

1. Funding: The provision of scholarships and bursaries to aid students in financial need
2. A Junior Teacher Programme: Which will focus on both recruiting students from target groups into teaching and supporting them academically in this journey
3. Personal support: There will be a dedicated NAT project officer within the school of education whose job it will be to guide and support these students while they are studying education at UCC.