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TWO COLLEGES HAVE come together to sign an agreement that will provide greater educational opportunities for students.
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) and Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) say the new strategic alliance will benefit students, communities and industry.
The institutes say that the new alliance will provide a framework to enhance collaboration along the Atlantic Corridor.
It’s hoped it will connect the two regional clusters of the West/North West and Mid-West into a multi-stakeholder regional cluster as envisaged in the National Higher Education Strategy to 2030.
LIT President Dr Maria Hinfelaar explained that “the Alliance will involve institute-wide co-operation across the range of activities, and will be jointly chaired by the Institutes’ Presidents.
“The work of the alliance will be directed by an implementation board, jointly chaired by the two Institutes’ Registrars, which will meet on a regular basis”.
GMIT President Michael Carmody, said the agreement “commits to co-ordinated support for industry and employment, collaboration on the development of quality assurance procedures and policies, shared planning and implementation of Labour Market Activation initiatives for the regions, development of joint relationships with relevant regional, national and international organisations and a general optimisation of resources including shared services and joint procurement activities”.
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They can meet in Ennis and have their combined rag week so!
Brilliant. I alway said that what the Atlantic Corridor needs is a framework to enhance collaboration. I’m just amazed that a multi-stakeholder regional cluster hasn’t been envisaged before now.
I am not convinced. I would use the example of silicon valley a region we should emulate. There you have a region with a huge amount of institutions doing their things and competing. No federally driven mergers or amalgamations. Take the example of Caltech, a small but amazingly successful IT. Give the institutions more autonomy and a fixed budget and let them compete.
For a country of 4.5 million people, we sure have an endless number of third level institutions.
First Tipperary Institute merged with LIT now GMIT. Why does this country think centralisation and merging is the answer to everything. It’s a just a ruse for more cuts but the people are too stupid to see it. Same with the abolition of the urban councils. A cash grab on the rich urban councils to save rural Ireland. Name one situation where centralisation/mergers has worked in this country?
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