Plans to create a technologicaluniversity for the southeast have hit a new setback.
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Ireland has seven conventional "universities" and a new technologicaluniversity.
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The Higher Education Authority will shortly publish the criteria for the establishment of a technologicaluniversity.
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Together they have suggested that they might collectively become a " technologicaluniversity of Ireland".
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The three colleges have formed a consortium which is planning to merge and become a technologicaluniversity.
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But the creation of the State's first technologicaluniversity begs a question: do we really need more universities?
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Ireland's first technologicaluniversity has been formally established by law and is now the country's largest third-level institution.
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Under forthcoming legislation, any institute of technology seeking designation as a technologicaluniversity must first merge with another IT.
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A technologicaluniversity is characterised by the professional readiness of its graduates and proximity to the world of work.
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An expected criterion for becoming a technologicaluniversity is that the applicant IT agrees to merge or cluster with another.
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Applications to become Ireland's first technologicaluniversity could reach the Department of Education as early as the end of the year.
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Plans to merge three institutes of technology in Connacht and Ulster to form a technologicaluniversity have cleared their first hurdle.
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Once approved by Minister for Education, Ruairí Quinn, any of the 14 institutes will be free to apply for technologicaluniversity status.
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WIT has thrown plans for a technologicaluniversity in the southeast into disarray having pulled out of merger talks with IT Carlow.
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The Department of Education has insisted there has been no "dumbing down" of standards required for institutes of technology to secure new technologicaluniversity status.
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Recently, the Dublin Institute of Technology became the TechnologicalUniversity of Dublin.