Justine Dwyer The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Simon Harris, has described approval for SETU to enter negotiations regarding the former Waterford Crystal site as “substantial progress.” Speaking in Waterford on Monday (yesterday) to officially open SETU, the Minister also said he was very conscious of...
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SETU President ready to embrace challenge
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SETU President ready to embrace challenge
Justine Dwyer The first president of SETU Professor Veronica Campbell said this week that she was both delighted and honoured to take up the position and looked forward to the challenge that lay ahead. The new Technical University for the South East officially came into being on May 1st – a merger of WIT and...
Minister Pippa Hackett launches WIT MSc in Organic and Biological Agriculture
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Minister Pippa Hackett launches WIT MSc in Organic and Biological Agriculture
Minister Pippa Hackett, Minister of State for Land Use and Biodiversity launched the first Masters in organic and biological agriculture in Ireland at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) on Thursday, 3 February. Developed in partnership with National Organic Training Skillnet, the MSc in Organic and Biological...
Technological University Status confirmed for Waterford IT
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Technological University Status confirmed for Waterford IT
Kieran Foley A Technological University is to be established in the South East in the 2021/2022 academic year. The joint application on behalf of the Institute of Technology Carlow and Waterford Institute of Technology (known as the TUSEI consortium) was submitted on 30 April 2021 under the Technological Universities...
Application for TUSE lodged
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Application for TUSE lodged
Hopes that it will reverse region’s ‘brain drain’ Eoghan Dalton Newspaper clippings reminding us of Waterford’s long held ambitions for a university may be a less common sight soon enough. Last Friday’s application by Waterford IT and IT Carlow to Minister for Higher Education, Simon...
TUSE to still go ahead
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TUSE to still go ahead
Eoghan Dalton The application for the proposed merger of Waterford Institute of Technology and IT Carlow will go ahead this week as originally planned, a meeting involving college management heard yesterday morning (Monday). Although doubts had been expressed after academic staff at WIT voted against terms for the...
Waterford-born Nobel laureate honoured at world-class ‘Walton Institute’
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Waterford-born Nobel laureate honoured at world-class ‘Walton Institute’
New visionary direction will redefine institute’s ICT research impact Waterford Institute of Technology’s research wing TSSG (Telecommunications Software & Systems Group) is further advancing its global ICT research impact by evolving to the Walton Institute for Information and Communication Systems Science. The...
TUSE application set to be lodged next month
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TUSE application set to be lodged next month
Jordan Norris An application for the Technological University of the South East (TUSE) is set to be formally lodged on April 28th. The proposed merger of Waterford Institute of Technology and IT Carlow is set to have a significant campus in Wexford, according to Senator Malcolm Byrne. The project has been interrupted...
TUSE HQ in Waterford ‘very unlikely’
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TUSE HQ in Waterford ‘very unlikely’
Kieran Foley Eleven Waterford Councillors say they will not support the application process for the Technological University of the South East (TUSE). The group, comprised of Independent and Labour Councillors from across the city and county, believe “it will not deliver the shift required to allow the region reach...