Institute of Technology campuses?

rosedream

I know there will be a p**s-take on this thread, but I am genuinely curious to know of someone does give a good answer. How come some Institute of Technology campuses not only expand around a city to different counties, but also are sort of forgotten about? Where I am at now is a IT campus that is not the main campus and is also located in a different county, it , but it annoys me when you hear of news and events, loads of societies, fundraising, rag and freshers week, basically a real student life all happening at the main campus. I mean I do get these campuses are a lot smaller, but it would still be better to know whats going on in the town and campus you are studying.

I mean would it not make more sense to have all the different campuses brought back to its main town, and either rebuild a bigger campus to include more courses, or have them all situated around the town or city, like with DIT? I know some of the towns could be a lot smaller, but when you have the right amount of money (which going by some of the fees that keep rising, they should have)and enough students, it should be enough to either to have a new building somewhere near the town centre, or renovate an older building.
I mean I knew of a few people who picked a course in a IT that is situated on the main campus, not because they actually liked the course and wanted a career out of it, but because they wanted to be involved on the proper campus itself, even though it meant wasting .

Just curious to know why they expand so far? I mean one that baffles me having an LIT campus in Clonmel, but Limerick and Clonmel are not even remotely close together.

0byme75341jo28

rosedream wrote: »

I know there will be a p**s-take on this thread, but I am genuinely curious to know of someone does give a good answer. How come some Institute of Technology campuses not only expand around a city to different counties, but also are sort of forgotten about? Where I am at now is a IT campus that is not the main campus and is also located in a different county, it , but it annoys me when you hear of news and events, loads of societies, fundraising, rag and freshers week, basically a real student life all happening at the main campus. I mean I do get these campuses are a lot smaller, but it would still be better to know whats going on in the town and campus you are studying.

I mean would it not make more sense to have all the different campuses brought back to its main town, and either rebuild a bigger campus to include more courses, or have them all situated around the town or city, like with DIT? I know some of the towns could be a lot smaller, but when you have the right amount of money (which going by some of the fees that keep rising, they should have)and enough students, it should be enough to either to have a new building somewhere near the town centre, or renovate an older building.
I mean I knew of a few people who picked a course in a IT that is situated on the main campus, not because they actually liked the course and wanted a career out of it, but because they wanted to be involved on the proper campus itself, even though it meant wasting .

Just curious to know why they expand so far? I mean one that baffles me having an LIT campus in Clonmel, but Limerick and Clonmel are not even remotely close together.

Ha! Good one OP

The Backwards Man

I like the way you use your words to make sentences and stuff.

OscarXC7

rosedream wrote: »

I mean I knew of a few people who picked a course in a IT that is situated on the main campus, not because they actually liked the course and wanted a career out of it, but because they wanted to be involved on the proper campus itself, even though it meant wasting .

What an absolutely terrible reason to choose a college course.

kneemos

The will to read slowly dissipated and finally stopped.

rosedream

Right, I know my post is a bit long, but I can't edit it at the moment for some reason, so it may have to do for now, if you don't want to read it, then don't. Also I'm tired at the moment, so did not realised that I apparently rambled on.

Bog Standard User

rosedream wrote: »

I know there will be a p**s-take on this thread, but I am genuinely curious to know of someone does give a good answer. How come some Institute of Technology campuses not only expand around a city to different counties, but also are sort of forgotten about? Where I am at now is a IT campus that is not the main campus and is also located in a different county, it , but it annoys me when you hear of news and events, loads of societies, fundraising, rag and freshers week, basically a real student life all happening at the main campus. I mean I do get these campuses are a lot smaller, but it would still be better to know whats going on in the town and campus you are studying.

I mean would it not make more sense to have all the different campuses brought back to its main town, and either rebuild a bigger campus to include more courses, or have them all situated around the town or city, like with DIT? I know some of the towns could be a lot smaller, but when you have the right amount of money (which going by some of the fees that keep rising, they should have)and enough students, it should be enough to either to have a new building somewhere near the town centre, or renovate an older building.
I mean I knew of a few people who picked a course in a IT that is situated on the main campus, not because they actually liked the course and wanted a career out of it, but because they wanted to be involved on the proper campus itself, even though it meant wasting .

Just curious to know why they expand so far? I mean one that baffles me having an LIT campus in Clonmel, but Limerick and Clonmel are not even remotely close together.

lol they are about 1 hour drive apart

carlow it has a campus in wexford and kilkenny

galway it has a campus in castlebar

YFlyer

Couple of tits

Guy:Incognito

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I like the way you use your words to make sentences and stuff.

Fancy git probably learnded that with his "college education"

Meathlass

It's all to do with politics. Every politician wants a 'university' in their local town hence the diffusion of campuses.

Clonmel politicians kicked up a fuss when Thurles was given its own campus so they now run a handful of courses in Clonmel and lately both have been amalgamated into LIT.

Kilkenny city originally rejected an IT (or RTC as it was at the time) in the 70s so it went to Carlow. Now they're falling over themselves to get some third level institutes into the city.

I agree with you that you need a certain critical mass to have the kind of events and social life that we traditionally associate with being in college. On the other hand these facilities are a boon to the local economy and allow people who would have been unable to attend college to do so (economically disadvantaged and those working full-time who don't have the time to commute long distances to do evening courses)

padd b1975

OscarXC7 wrote: »

What an absolutely terrible reason to choose a college course.

Six of one really....
They're nearly all mickey mouse courses wherever you go.

Meathlass

rosedream wrote: »

I mean one that baffles me having an LIT campus in Clonmel, but Limerick and Clonmel are not even remotely close together.

It's part of government policy to amalgamate all these third level institutes. They're all being merged into regional clusters who can compete on an EU stage for funding and students.