ITT, DIT, ITB merger

BOHtox

What's the story with this does anyone know?

Will it happen? I heard talks were in an advanced stage a while ago. It's really been spoken about since around 2009 in the An Bord Snip Nua report.
Any idea what's happening at the moment?

macrubicon

There was another thread a short while ago on this...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056557438

TheBoss11

Any progress in this? Will they be forming and when?

macrubicon

Check out the website for all the information

http://www.tu4dublin.ie/

Mrs. Doyle

macrubicon wrote: »

Check out the website for all the information

http://www.tu4dublin.ie/

Thanks for the link. Had a quick look. Just wondering if it is known yet when some of the courses will move to DCU from Tallaght? Do you know if engineering courses will travel across?

Thanks.

macrubicon

I'm presuming you mean DIT not DCU??

Courses will be aligned after the legal merger when the programmatic reviews allow. There is no schedule on that as yet.

Mrs. Doyle

macrubicon wrote: »

I'm presuming you mean DIT not DCU??

Courses will be aligned after the legal merger when the programmatic reviews allow. There is no schedule on that as yet.

I was speaking to someone a long time back and they had mentioned DCU but presumably were wrong. DIT would make more sense.

Thanks for the reply.

BigCon

It seems from a response that I got to another post that this merger may be having an impact on honours degree accreditation, can anyone confirm this (the example I was looking at is the IT Tallaght Engineering degrees which don't seem to have been accredited last year by the IEI)?

macrubicon

BigCon wrote: »

It seems from a response that I got to another post that this merger may be having an impact on honours degree accreditation, can anyone confirm this (the example I was looking at is the IT Tallaght Engineering degrees which don't seem to have been accredited last year by the IEI)?

Currently all 3 organisations are operating on an as normal basis. There is no merger yet and won't be until legislation is passed. So - nothing has changed on any of the 3 sites.

In terms of the IEI accreditation - your best bet there is to call the School of Engineering or the IEI - they will give you a definitive answer.

yabbav

That was always the story and sure enough you'll never great a straight answer from the engineering office. Bottom line is if they are not IEI accredited I would suggest changing to a place that is. They've been spinning the yarn on the "ask the office" and the office saying "it will be soon" for way too long now.

BigCon

Here's the reply I received from the IEI last November:
"It is planned to visit ITT next year for an accreditation assessment. If successful it will cover graduates from 2015."
Make of that what you will...