Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements

9:00 am

Dr. Noel O'Connor:

It could. To some extent, it is not the realm that we want to move into, but we would definitely like to put on record that staff engaged as a part of the programme teams on the international foundation programme, in the particular case, are staff whom we regard as part of the programme team. They are making a very important contribution. They have done so to date. It has been very successful. We have looked at progression rates from the international foundation programme into our mainstream education and they are the exact same as our normal progression rates at undergraduate level. Those are students who are coming in from abroad. There is a huge amount of energy and resources going into it. The teams involved have been in place for some time. I accept the Deputy's point in that we want that to continue, and we have to sit down with the new providers to see how we might achieve that.

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