DIT academics protest over process for technical university

Heads of schools write letter of complaint of ‘inferior’ status in TU4Dublin talks

Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 01:00

Tim O'Brien

DIT president Prof Brian Norton said detailed discussions on the merger with the Tallaght and Blanchardstown institutes were “beginning again”. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw.

DIT president Prof Brian Norton said detailed discussions on the merger with the Tallaght and Blanchardstown institutes were “beginning again”. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw.

Eighteen senior academics at Dublin Institute of Technology have written to the chairman of the college’s governing body to express dissatisfaction with the process of setting up a new technical university for Dublin.

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