Bank of Ireland has begun a nationwide campaign for applications to its €12.5 million Millennium Scholars Trust.
Following the national campaign, up to 60 scholarships will be offered for the academic year commencing autumn 2004.
Since it was set up in 2000, the trust has awarded 246 scholarships to a value of €4.4 million to students facing economic, social and other barriers who would otherwise have been unable to go to college.
Creating some 60 scholarships each year for the first decade of the new millennium, the scholarships will help roughly 600 students in the pursuit of their educational goals by 2009.
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The value of each individual scholarship varies from a minimum of €3,200 to a maximum of €38,000 over the duration of their studies.