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Higher Education Minister says DkIT exam results being withheld is unacceptable
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Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris has said DkIT students having their exam results withheld due to industrial action at the college is “entirely unacceptable”.
The Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) Branch at Dundalk Institute of Technology – which represent lecturers and researchers – said the action has been taken due to the institute’s executive failing to honour commitments made last year, including the improvement of management bodies and progress in pursuing Technological University status.
Minister Harris, who met with Dundalk Senator John McGahon and DkIT Student Union President Taidgh Kavanagh via zoom to discuss the issue of student’s exam result being withheld, said exams result should be provided as soon as possible.
DkIT Students have exam results withheld due to dispute
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Students at the DkIT have had their exam results withheld due to lecturers engaging in industrial action in a dispute over a range of issues at the college.
The Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) Branch at Dundalk Institute of Technology said they have taken industrial action as the college’s executive have failed to honour commitments made last November.
The union – which represents lecturers and researchers – said the institute’s executive signed an agreement to “improve the functioning of management bodies” and “commence talks to pursue Technological University status”, which the TUI said it has not done.