Concerns have been raised by Dundalk IT staff over the college’s goal to reach Technological University status in the near future, with almost all other I.
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These are certainly strange times up at DkIT; and not exclusively because of the Covid-19 pandemic either.
The Dublin Road-based institute is slowly, but surely becoming an outlier among its peers.
By next year several other ITs around the country are expected to have linked up and formed Technological Universities (or TUs) – these particular new bodies will likely be in the mid-west, north-west and south-east.
You’ll notice from that list a lack of a ‘north-east’ inclusion.
DkIT has, for reasons not entirely fully understandable, decided to go it alone and not forge ahead with joining up with other ITs at present to form a TU.