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2009

DIT

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Trinity In Separate 'Secret' Discussions With Dit, John Walshe Mar 2009

Trinity In Separate 'Secret' Discussions With Dit, John Walshe

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The separate discussions with DIT are looking at all possible forms of potential alliance such as joint degrees, shared services and even joint staff appointments.


New Campus Will Create 4,500 Jobs In Construction., John Walshe Mar 2009

New Campus Will Create 4,500 Jobs In Construction., John Walshe

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UP TO 4,500 construction jobs will be created over 10 years in a planned new campus development, a report has revealed. A further 1,160 new posts are identified in a science and technology park, shops, offices, plus health and education facilities. The 73-acre site at Grangegorman is the planned new location of a campus for Dublin Institute of Technology which, at the moment, is spread around 40 centres in the city.


Recognition Of Prior Learning In Irish Culinary Arts, Dermot Seberry Jan 2009

Recognition Of Prior Learning In Irish Culinary Arts, Dermot Seberry

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The emerging agenda for higher education (HE) in Europe promotes lifelong learning, social inclusion, wider participation, employability and partnership working with community organisations. Consequently, higher education authorities are increasingly recognising the significant knowledge, skills and understanding which can be developed as a result of learning opportunities found at work through individual activities and personal interests. The accreditation of learning and prior achievement is now one of the central functions of the Higher Education Authority (HEA, 2007). In exercising this function, higher education providers are increasingly considering how learning that has taken place in a range of contexts, may be assessed …