EU-GRANT BRINGS DOWN FEES TO €1,600 FOR POSTGRADUATE GLOBAL COMPUTING
AND LOCALISATION PROGRAMMES

LIMERICK, IRELAND, 25 MAY 2007: The University of Limerick has just
announced that the Irish Higher Education Authority (HEA) is making
significant funding available to its recently launched new
postgraduate programmes in Global Computing and Localisation. These
grants will benefit students from all EU countries who will realize
savings of approximately €3,650 against the standard fees.

The US$9 billion localisation industry has an increased demand for
professional localisers with a solid technical and business oriented
background. In close cooperation with industrial and academic
experts, the University of Limerick who was the first to offer
dedicated postgraduate localisation programmes in 1997 is now
responding to this demand by offering two new postgraduate programmes
in localisation, starting in September 2007.

The Graduate Diploma in Localisation Technology and the Master of
Science in Global Computing and Localisation will be offered on a
full-time and part-time (one-day-a-week) basis.

Reinhard Schäler, Director of the Localisation Research Centre (LRC)
at the University and Course Coordinator for these programmes,
said "We are extremely pleased to see that the Irish Higher Education
Authority sees localisation as a strategic postgraduate skill and has
decided to support it so generously. These grants will make a
significant difference to students wishing to pursue our programmes."

Ireland has been a world centre of localisation since the mid 1980s,
with companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec and Google
locating their European Headquarters here. International academic and
business leaders have described the University of Limerick as "the
Mecca of Localisation", "teaching the best minds in the
internationalisation and localisation business". UL has been offering
postgraduate courses in localisation for the past decade, is the home
of the EU-funded Localisation Tools Laboratory and Showcase (LOTS)
and is the publisher of the peer-reviewed and indexed Localisation
Focus – The International Journal of Localisation. More information
on these programmes is available on www.localisation.ie/education.

Contact: Reinhard.Schaler@...