dc.contributor.author | Hennessy, Daire | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-16T15:03:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-16T15:03:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | en |
dc.date.submitted | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Daire Hennessy, The DEIS Grant: Additional Funding or Keeping up with the Joneses? An Analysis of DEIS School Funding in the Context of Voluntary Contributions., Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, 2022 | en |
dc.identifier.other | N | en |
dc.description | SUBMITTED | en |
dc.description.abstract | The Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) programme provides targeted
supports to schools serving disadvantaged communities, including an additional financial
allocation known as the DEIS grant. The rationale behind this grant is that additional resources
are necessary for schools in disadvantaged communities to achieve similar outcomes to their
non-DEIS counterparts. This research examines the degree to which this grant does in fact
represent additional resources for DEIS schools, when we account for the family donations
requested by schools to supplement their income, commonly referred to as voluntary
contributions. Taking post-primary schools in South Dublin as a case study, this research
presents a digital documentary analysis of publicly available data, finding that non-DEIS
schools have a significantly greater capacity to raise funds through voluntary contributions
when compared to schools with DEIS status, even controlling for payment rates. This
phenomenon is compounded by state tax relief offered to schools with the highest voluntary
contributions, which this research has shown are more likely to have non-DEIS status. The
study concludes that the DEIS grant can more accurately be considered a policy tool which
seeks to mitigate the significant financial resources available to non-DEIS schools, rather than
one which puts DEIS schools ahead financially. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin | en |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.subject | Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) | en |
dc.subject | Education | en |
dc.title | The DEIS Grant: Additional Funding or Keeping up with the Joneses? An Analysis of DEIS School Funding in the Context of Voluntary Contributions. | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.type.supercollection | thesis_dissertations | en |
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/dahennes | en |
dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 250662 | en |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
dc.subject.TCDTheme | Inclusive Society | en |
dc.subject.TCDTheme | Making Ireland | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/102125 | |