Top marks for IT Sligo in Sunday Times Good University Guide.
IT Sligo has made top ten in the Sunday Times Good University Guide. The guide contains Ireland’s only league table that measures the performance of 19 third-level institutions. The Guide uses a range of measures, including student satisfaction with teaching, spend per student and graduate employment prospects, to…
Efforts continue to establish a new technological university
Efforts to establish a new technological university for the region are continuing with the presidents of three third-level colleges having resumed onsite, face-to-face meetings for the first time since the Covid-19 enforced shutdown. The presidents of Letterkenny IT, IT Sligo, and Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology had been meeting weekly…
Remote learning will be deployed at IT Sligo next year
The president of IT Sligo, Brendan McCormack has warned of a changed landscape and novel challenges for third level student in the new academic year. Fears had been expressed this week that many students will find it difficult to return to third level education due to the financial consequences…
IT President: Come off WiFi to allow students to study online
The President of IT Sligo has said people need to come off their household WiFi to allow students to continue their studies. This comes after reports of many secondary and third levels students across the North West are struggling to study and access online resources due to poor broadband connectivity.…
IT Sligo President says the health of students and staff is paramount
The president of IT Sligo has said their primary concern is for the health and wellbeing of the students, staff and their families, above education. Dr. Brendan McCormack has said they are closely monitoring the well being of their 300 international students studying in Sligo on a social isolation level…
IT Sligo express concern for students abroad over coronavirus
With school trips abroad becoming a focus of concern amid efforts to combat the coronavirus, the President of IT Sligo says the major concern for now is for students and staff who are abroad at present or who are planning to go abroad in the near future. But Dr…
Funding allocation to alter education landscape in the north west
A 90 million euro funding announcement for Technological Universities will have a massive impact on IT Sligo, GMIT and Letterkenny IT’s alliance in becoming a Technological University. That’s according to the President of the Connacht Ulster Alliance of IT’s , Dr Brendan McCormack. The president of IT Sligo,…