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If they want University status would it not make more sense for them to have some sort of a affiliation with UCC & UL.
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#Originally Posted by Analyzer
no , it would be MUT - munster university of technology - sligo is to become sligo higher institute of technology or shi...t - athlone is to beome athlone regional specialist ecouniversity or arse,
Pity the nation divided into into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation - Khalil Gibran
That really depends on the subject. A lot of engineering research in DCU is better than UCD (some isn't, of course). DIT I can't comment on.
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Precisely.
"Well, while I'm here, I'll do the work - and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow." - Allen Ginsberg Memory Gardens
I blame the parents
Pity the nation divided into into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation - Khalil Gibran
Out of interest, what happens to the courses that are inappropriate for universities? I'd be especially interested to know about the Cork School of Music, which would form part of this. It educates kids from the age of 5. Hardly the job of a university.
As an aside on this renaming stuff, CIT was originally Crawford Technological Institute. It campaigned to get the name changed to Regional Technical College when those were set up. It was then campaigning to go back to Institute of Technology when WIT got the status. Names don't seem to change much of what actually goes on.
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well at least they did not call it cork university of new technologies....or CUN...
Pity the nation divided into into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation - Khalil Gibran
I was studying IT in DCU. They might as well call the place Celtic Tiger Institute of Technology in my experience. The whole Dept. was overflowing with money and very little ability. All of the research students/tutors were from China without a word of English between them, the staff was an unhealthy mix of feckless old dimwits who'd been around since the place was Albert College and and feckless young dimwits, most of whom didn't even have PhDs. Nobody had any interest in teaching. Every time I went to the library they said I had fines, there were no visiting lecturers, no extra-curricular intellectual activity whatsoever actually. I really can't say enough bad things about the place. The whole place had the cut of a large secondary school.
"Well, while I'm here, I'll do the work - and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow." - Allen Ginsberg Memory Gardens
Five year olds with BAs! Talk about a young, well educated country! It'll be just like 2005 all over again!
"Well, while I'm here, I'll do the work - and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow." - Allen Ginsberg Memory Gardens
Munster University of Technology
MUT
lovely... what is with Academia Irelands' obsession with the term 'University'?
I assure you once youre off this rock and not just trying to impress in England the term does not matter
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