“Going back to college doesn’t have quite the same ring when you’re told you’ll be spending very little time on campus …” (more)
[Brendan Kelly, Independent, 28 September]
“An objective has been set out this week to establish the Technological University of the South East on 1 January 2022. The chairpersons of the governing bodies and the presidents of both Institute of Technology Carlow and Waterford Institute of Technology this week announced the objective in a briefing note to business and other community leaders …” (more)
[Suzanne Pender, Carlow Nationalist, 26 September]
“The chairpersons of the governing bodies and the presidents of Waterford Institute of Technology and Institute of Technology Carlow have announced their objective that the Technological University of the South East of Ireland (TUSEI) will be established on January 1, 2022 …” (more)
[Dylan White, Waterford Live, 23 September]
“Hopes of a reduction in rent for students in Waterford have been dashed by a new survey. It shows that rent for a one-bedroom apartment in the city has gone up by an average of 2% over the past year and by 4% in the county …” (more)
[Michael Wolsey, Waterford Now, 16 September]
“Verona Murphy (Wexford, Fine Gael): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the amalgamation of Institute of Technology Carlow and Waterford Institute of Technology to form the Technological University for the South East Ireland …” (more)
[Dáil debates, 9 September]
“The focus this week is on schools reopening. Next Monday it will shift to the Leaving Certificate. In about a fortnight, the spotlight moves on to third level. Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) set the pace, in a story broken in this newspaper, announcing that all lectures, tutorials, and practical classes will be delivered remotely for this academic year because of Covid-19. The few exceptions will be laboratory work …” (more)
[Gerard Howlin, Irish Examiner, 2 September]
“Waterford City is set for a further economic hit given the thousands of Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) students who will be studying remotely during the coming academic year. And with third level education estimated to bring €600 million annually into the local economy, a city already struggling with the impact of Covid-19 is set for a further and unwelcome blow …” (more)
[Claire Quinn, Waterford News and Star, 1 September]
“So – Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) is first out of the blocks and has announced that all lectures, tutorials and practical classes will be delivered remotely for the 2020/2021 academic year, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a message to students, WIT announced that ‘delivery will include live-streaming of lectures and other forms of remote learning platforms appropriate to individual modules or programmes …'” (more)
[Careful With That Axe, Eugene, 1 September]
“The President of the Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) said students will be asked to pay full fees for this academic year as all lectures and tutorials move online. Students and staff were informed last week of the blended learning approach for the upcoming academic year …” (more)
[Orla Dwyer, TheJournal.ie, 31 August]
“Waterford Institute of Technology has told students and staff that all lectures, tutorials and practical classes will be delivered off-campus throughout the coming academic year. Third-level colleges throughout the county are expected to finalise timetable details once offers are made to incoming first-year students following next week’s Leaving Cert calculated grades …” (more)
[Conor Kane, RTÉ News, 31 August]
“WIT students, already anxious about the nature of the new academic year, have been plunged into deeper ‘concern and dismay’ after the institute announced that all lectures, tutorials and practical classes for 2020/21 will run online …” (more)
[Dermot Keyes, Waterford News and Star, 27 August]
“Waterford Institute of Techonology (WIT) has informed students that all lectures, tutorials and practical classes will be conducted remotely and off campus for the 2020/21 academic year …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 27 August]
“Returning and First Year students, citing ‘limited communication’, feel they have been ‘left in the dark’ by Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) ahead of the new academic year. That’s the contention of Labour Party Comeragh representative and former WIT Students Union (WITSU) President Michael Murphy …” (more)
[Dermot Keyes, Waterford News and Star, 27 August]
“Exciting news from Minister Mary Butler. WIT is ‘expected’ to be included in a tendering process. Yippie! Hold the front page. I know Waterford people are somewhat tender about tendering as we still await a tender for the second cath lab, two years after it ‘got’ the go-ahead …” (more)
[Waterford News and Star, 25 August]
“Former WIT Students’ Union President and Labour Party Representative, Michael Murphy is urging Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) to rethink their method of assessment for the autumn repeats …” (more)
[Claire Quinn, Waterford News and Star, 13 August]
“Ever since I was a child, I have listened to politicians talk about a University for Waterford and for the region. For decades, the demand for educational equality for the South East has fallen on deaf ears. Moves championed as one step forward in reality were two steps back …” (more)
[David Cullinane, Waterford News and Star, 8 August]
“Students at WIT have expressed concern that they have to return to the college to re-sit their exams in ten days time. From August 17th, anyone who needs to repeat Christmas Semester 1 exams will have to do so on site. In a statement to WLR, the college say there will be a maximum of 42 students in any one exam centre, with two sittings taking place per day across two venues from August 17th until the 28th …” (more)
[Karen Tomkins, WLR FM, 7 August]
“… A greater threat to Waterford emerged with Simon Harris’ announcement of Tom Boland, ex head of the Higher Education Authority as facilitator to drive the TUSE project. Harris left the Dept of Health and took its Secretary General, Jim Breslin, with him. The men who oversaw the Herity Report, sinful delay and obfuscation about the second cath lab and expansion of cardiology at UHW are now in the Department of Higher Education. Back in saddle again, as the C&W song says, riding Waterford into the ground once more …” (more)
[Waterford News and Star, 5 August]
“Former Chief Executive of the Higher Education Authority (HEA), Tom Boland is the new ‘independent Programme Executive Director for the TUSEI consortium comprising the Carlow and Waterford Institutes of Technology’. He was appointed on July 28 by Higher Education Minister Simon Harris to ‘accelerate plans for a technological university in the South East’ …” (more)
[Waterford News and Star, 5 August]
“The battle for a new technological university in the south-east has been an uphill battle, with little obvious progress being made since plans were originally published in 2015. The South-East has found itself to be something of an anomaly in terms of access to higher education in Ireland …” (more)
[Faye Curran, University Times, 4 August]
