Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Public Accounts Committee

University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements

9:00 am

Mr. Diarmuid Collins:

In appendix 1 of our document, we have set out a range of benefits for the transaction as we would see it for Ireland and for UCC. The key benefits for us in UCC are that we are developing and investing in a business school. UCC has not had an arm of executive education to date. It will have after the acquisition of IMI. We will now have an element of our offering that is executive. We will have undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education. That was a gap in our offering in business education. It allows us to meet one of the objectives of the Universities Act. It positions us better to take in international students. The Minister launched a document back at the beginning of the year targeting an increase of 25% in international students over the next three years. Having the IMI helps us better meet those targets. As I said, it will give us the offering of executive education. One of the key things for us is that the IMI, with its membership organisation, the level of members, council members-----

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