What would you change/improve at WIT

Where to start. I could spend ten times that much, and I would still only be making a start on the things WIT needs. But it is a good sign, although normal treatment by HEA/Dept. of WIT compared with CIT (they got way more money).


Lots of buildings need a bit of TLC, even the newer ones. College St is looking a tired and shabby, broken seats in class rooms, very tired painting etc.... Main campus needs better lighting in car parking (especially winter nights), more sit down areas for students to hang and talk, break out study areas, newer PCs in lots of areas (with quicker log on), better signage, wayfinding and names on buildings. The new engineering building and school of business are sorely needed. As are new large lecture halls to take pressure of the entire system (buildings, timetables, staff). In general we certainly need to raise the standard of most teaching spaces which have a very basic spec. Landscaping (in front of the T+L) could do with a windbreak wall/planting, the walkways to the back car park are untidy. There are lots of halted, half finished refits where there was no money to finish out commenced works .

imacman wrote: »

Personally I think they shouldn't waste any more money on college street and work on a strategy of getting out of there. I heard rumblings that the WCFE are interested in moving in there as they are running out of room in their existing site.I say sell college street for as much money as they can to the WCFE and move them in on a phased basis and build a humanities block on the main campus (on the front car park)

I wasn't aware of that. But car parking is a massive issue as is and this move would make it unbearable.

picnic benches around the place for atein the grub durin the warmer dryer weather

As an IT student I can say that the computers in the Walton build are terrible and they need to be upgraded, they are a vast majority of computers that do not work or crash constantly.

As people have mentioned before car parking in also an issue, there is a huge waste ground near the tourism and leisure building which could be turned into a temporary carpark (Could be flatten out, no need for tarmac, just as it would be good enough), I know they were trying to build on it but it’s just a unused wasteland as it stands could be used for something more productive until they actually need to build on it.

That's just my two cents.