Seanad debates

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed)

 

2:30 pm

Photo of Grace O'SullivanGrace O'Sullivan (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 26:

In page 31, to delete line 27 and substitute the following:“(a) demonstrating the standards required for university designation, and specifically eligibility under the criteria,”.

The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that compliance with the eligibility criteria as laid out in the Bill is not the maximum standard that would be applied to applicant institutes. An expert panel of evaluators should be using the criteria as a backbone to their assessment, which should certainly go beyond a mere checklist of certifying criteria if the technological universities are to be the higher education centres of excellence that the Minister has envisaged.

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