Dundalk Institute outline vision to achieve TU status
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Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT) has published a new vision statement outlining their clear ambition and strategic intent to achieve Technological University (TU) status by 2023.
The statement was shared with all staff at a consultative briefing last Friday and has been ratified by the DkIT Governing Body.
It promotes a unified agreed approach in delivering on the strategic goal and its unequivocal commitment to achieving TU designation by becoming a campus of a multi-campus Regional TU.
The statement provides an overarching vision for all stakeholders as the institute embarks on this new evolutionary period, accoding to the institution.
Hill Street Views: Dundalk IT at a worrying crossroads
Opinion, views and commentary from former Democrat editor David Lynch
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These are certainly strange times up at DkIT; and not exclusively because of the Covid-19 pandemic either.
The Dublin Road-based institute is slowly, but surely becoming an outlier among its peers.
By next year several other ITs around the country are expected to have linked up and formed Technological Universities (or TUs) – these particular new bodies will likely be in the mid-west, north-west and south-east.
You’ll notice from that list a lack of a ‘north-east’ inclusion.
DkIT has, for reasons not entirely fully understandable, decided to go it alone and not forge ahead with joining up with other ITs at present to form a TU.
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Fergus O’Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress made to date on Dundalk Institute of Technology becoming a technological university under the Technological Universities Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
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