To: All Mandate Trade Union Members – Southern Division
Re: Further Education Bursary Scheme 2023 – 2024
Date: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Dear Member
We hope this correspondence finds you safe and well.
Please see below correspondence from Mr. Jonathan Hogan, Assistant General Secretary, with regard to the Further Education Bursary Scheme 2023/2024.
If you wish to submit an application, please email your details to southern@mandate.ie and we will post an application form to you. Upon receipt of the application form, please complete all relevant sections and return in the prepaid envelope provided.
Alternatively you can download the application form by clicking HERE. Please print this form, complete all relevant sections and return the form to;
Mandate Trade Union
1 – 2 Emmet Place
Cork
T12 VF43
If you have any questions or queries with regard to same please do not hesitate to contact the Mandate Cork Office at 021 4270101
Yours fraternally
Pearse McCarthy, Divisional Organiser
John O’Donnell, Industrial Officer Organiser
Dear Colleague
The National Executive Council will provide a Bursary Scheme under specific conditions to members who wish to attend further education or classes in the academic year 2023/2024.
The conditions are as follows:
| 1. | Applicants must be a current full member of Mandate Trade Union for a minimum of six months prior to the closing date for applications. In addition, if successful in their application, they must be a full member of Mandate when the payment of the bursary is due. |
| 2. | Preference will be given to applicants with a record of union activism at the various committee levels and who have enrolled in courses covering trade union, industrial relations or related studies e.g. legal studies. Members should provide details of union activism in the relevant section on the application form. |
3. The Bursary:
| 3.1 | Will apply to course fees for a maximum of one academic year for any approved course/module(s). |
| 3.2 | Will only cover course/tuition fees. |
| 3.3 | May not be used to fund materials, travel, equipment or any other costs associated with your studies. |
| 3.4 | Is not transferable. |
| 3.5 | Cannot be used in conjunction with any other union funding of a course of studies. |
| 4. | Applications for grants for courses or classes on leisure activities will not be considered. |
| 5. | Applications for CAO courses will not be considered. |
| 6. | Fees for the course in question must be paid and the receipt attached. No application will be considered in the absence of a receipt. It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure the appropriate documentation is attached to their application. |
| 7. | Retrospective applications for courses completed in previous years other than the current academic year will not be accepted. |
| 8. | Once applicants meet the eligibility requirements above and depending on the number of applications, they may be entered into a draw. The number of successful applicants drawn will be based on the designated size of the bursary fund made available by the National Executive Council. |
| 9. | All or any payments made will be at the discretion of the National Executive Council. |
| 10. | To ensure the continued participation by members who are awarded grants in the courses selected, the National Executive Council reserve the right to pay any grant sanctioned in two or more instalments or as may be decided. It is expected that successful applicants will agree to stay in membership of Mandate Trade Union for twelve months after the bursary is paid. |
| 11. | Consideration of applications will be confined to those with receipts for fees paid which are received by our Mandate Head Office marked for the attention of Louise Foy by the closing date Friday 17th November 2023. No correspondence or discussion will be entered into in connection with any application after this date. |
| 12. | The decision of the National Executive Council on all matters relating to this Bursary Scheme will be final. |
Yours fraternally
For Mandate
Jonathan Hogan
Assistant General Secretary