Severe budget cuts have hit a prestigious scholarship scheme named after the architect of the Good Friday Agreement. The Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) will stop funding the George J Mitchell programme, which brought students from the US to the north. Run by the US-Ireland Alliance and named after the US senator who brokered the agreement in 1998, it enabled up to four young people to spend a year of postgraduate study at Queen's University or Ulster University. The scholarship scheme began in the wake of the agreement, with the first intake graduating in 2001. Awards are mad[...]