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The problem with the spatial strategy

ishmael whale · 2005-01-24 12:30:59

A fair example of the kind of problem that crops up when something that might amount to meaningful regional development is suggested. Try to make WIT a university, and a Carlow politician jumps on the bandwagon. I take it MJ Nolan has no particular interest in any substantive change in the quality of third level education…

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24-01-2005 1:30pm

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A fair example of the kind of problem that crops up when something that might amount to meaningful regional development is suggested. Try to make WIT a university, and a Carlow politician jumps on the bandwagon. I take it MJ Nolan has no particular interest in any substantive change in the quality of third level education available within the South East region, so long as Carlow IT gets a brass plate with the word ‘University’ on it.

Equally, the suggestion that WIT be upgraded comes from a locally based Minister for Transport rather than the Minister for Education, or any other figure who could reasonably claim to be responsible for the development of the third level sector. Are we ever going to get our **** together, and just run the country as a coherent entity?

http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1326131&issue_id=11992
Cullen claims university is crucial for regional balance
THE lack of a university in the south-east is "a glaring deficit" in the region's educational infrastructure, Transport Minister Martin Cullen said at the weekend. …… He said that all the region's counties needed to pull together to make the Government listen. Mr Cullen said: "Waterford Institution of Technology is the finest entity of its type in the country. Given the quality and variety of the courses it offers, the students it attracts, the staff it employs and the research it conducts, it is a university in all but name.
…. However, Carlow Fianna Fail TD MJ Nolan said Carlow was strategically one of the best locations for a university campus. "I support fully the concept of a university in the south-east but it must have a twin campus structure, one based in Waterford and one in Carlow," he said. "Tens of thousands of students have successfully completed third-level courses in Carlow and the expertise, which has been developed over the years, cannot be ignored."

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