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LIMERICK company BD is providing scholarships and bursaries to ten UL students, while it is also assigning professional mentors from the company to the learners. One of those mentors is Jennifer Hogan, from Sixmilebridge, who said that the support will be invaluable to the students. “I got this type of mentoring myself when I was in the early stages of my career, and I found it really useful. I’m really looking forward to giving back to the programme now as a mentor. It will be great to interact with the UL students and offer them some guidance on their careers.” BD is one of the country’s leading med-tech research facilities and its Limerick site director Padraig Fitzgerald said that there is a need to improve access to education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). “From government to industry and education, there is consensus that we have a challenge in terms of STEM skills. “A European Commission suggests that 24 …
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