Meanings of technological university in English

Plans to create a technological university for the southeast have hit a new setback.

Ireland has seven conventional "universities" and a new technological university.

The Higher Education Authority will shortly publish the criteria for the establishment of a technological university.

Together they have suggested that they might collectively become a " technological university of Ireland".

The three colleges have formed a consortium which is planning to merge and become a technological university.

But the creation of the State's first technological university begs a question: do we really need more universities?

Ireland's first technological university has been formally established by law and is now the country's largest third-level institution.

Under forthcoming legislation, any institute of technology seeking designation as a technological university must first merge with another IT.

A technological university is characterised by the professional readiness of its graduates and proximity to the world of work.

An expected criterion for becoming a technological university is that the applicant IT agrees to merge or cluster with another.

Applications to become Ireland's first technological university could reach the Department of Education as early as the end of the year.

Plans to merge three institutes of technology in Connacht and Ulster to form a technological university have cleared their first hurdle.

Once approved by Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn, any of the 14 institutes will be free to apply for technological university status.

WIT has thrown plans for a technological university in the southeast into disarray having pulled out of merger talks with IT Carlow.

The Department of Education has insisted there has been no "dumbing down" of standards required for institutes of technology to secure new technological university status.

Recently, the Dublin Institute of Technology became the Technological University of Dublin.