The Presidents of the three institutes of technology in the Connacht-Ulster Alliance (CUA) on Thursday 28th of October 2021, warmly welcomed the announcement by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, that GMIT, LYIT and IT Sligo have together been approved for designation as a Technological University (TU).
The new TU will offer almost 600 academic programmes from pre-degree to doctoral level to a student population of 20,000+ supported by over 2,200 staff. Following on from last week's momentous announcement, please see a link below to the second issue of the CUA Newsletter.