Written answers

Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Department of Education and Skills

Technological Universities

Photo of Gerald NashGerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress in relation to technological university status for Dundalk IT as per an agreement signed and lodged with the Workplace Relations Commission in November 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5668/20]

Photo of Joe McHughJoe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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Under the statutory framework provided in the Technological Universities Act 2018, two or more Institutes of Technology (IoTs) may jointly seek TU designation through a prescribed legislative process. Section 29 of the 2018 Act provides for the application jointly by two or more applicant institutes to the Minister of Education and Skills for an order seeking designation as a TU subject to their jointly meeting specified eligibility criteria.  Section 38 of the 2018 Act provides that an applicant institute and an established technological university may apply to the Minister for an order.

However, as autonomous higher education institutions established under statute, it remains a matter for the governing body of an IoT to set the institute’s  particular strategic direction within the higher education landscape, including whether or not to seek TU designation through the prescribed legal processes.

 

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