Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan has asked management at Cork and Tralee institutes of technology to keep up consultation with staff who are concerned over their planned merger.

Academic staff have welcomed decisions of two institutes of technology not to speed up a planned merger but will still vote on possible industrial action over the move.

A showdown with staff looks increasingly likely at two Munster institutes of technology as a union prepares to ballot lecturers for industrial action if a proposed merger goes ahead.

Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan says she cannot get involved in the dispute in which lecturers at institutes of technology in Cork and Tralee are moving towards industrial action over a planned merger.

The institutes of technology in Cork and Tralee should merge sooner for their planned application to become a technological university, say experts who evaluated their proposal.

Students of today have to be prepared for jobs that have not yet been conceived, an awards ceremony was told.

The League of Ireland is facing a formidable threat to its future attendances after the English Premier League confirmed it will screen live Friday night games from 2016.

Premier League matches will be screened live on Friday nights from the start of the 2016-17 season, it can be revealed.

Ex-chairman of Institute of Technology Tralee Flan Garvey has offered to “go back and clean up the mess that is damaging” it.

A change to college rules in the summer means governing body members at IT Tralee can no longer study for degrees there.

The planned creation of a Munster Technological University in Cork and Tralee would have major benefits for the region, Cork Institute of Technology president Brendan Murphy has said.

A team of leading academics will meet staff and students of Institute of Technology, Tralee (ITT) next month in a research degree review prompted by the plagiarism case of the college’s former chairman.

Comedian Graham Norton is to present an award at the Institute of Technology Tralee tomorrow to the duo whose Kerry-style parody of a scene from Pulp Fiction became a YouTube sensation.

A review of expenses systems at institutes of technology is to examine how much was paid to governing body members since 2009.

Institute of Technology Tralee chairman, Flan Garvey, who had a plagiarism finding against him overturned on appeal, is to quit almost three years before his term ends.

Ireland’s qualifications watchdog is to carry out a statutory review of the validation processes for postgraduate research degrees at Institute of Technology Tralee in light of the “unintentional” plagiarism in a thesis by the chairperson of the Institute’s governing body.

There is growing pressure on Flan Garvey, chairman of the Institute of Technology Tralee, after lecturers voted through their union that it is not in the college’s best interest for him to continue in the role.

The chair of Institute of Technology Tralee’s governing body may soon have to review his position after being embroiled in controversy over high expenses payments and a plagiarism investigation, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn has indicated.

Education Minister Ruairi Quinn is awaiting a response from Institute of Technology Tralee (ITT) on the outcome of an investigation of plagiarism against its own chairman.

An external investigation has found that Institute of Technology Tralee (ITT) chairman Flan Garvey committed unintentional plagiarism in a 2008 master’s thesis but this has been overturned on a technical appeal.

The suggestion that Institute of Technology Tralee president Dr Oliver Murphy will initiate an investigation into how an internal complaint over plagiarism was leaked to the press and, possibly, discipline those involved, underlines the urgency around introducing legislation to protect whistleblowers.

The statutory body which lecturers want to investigate a plagiarism claim against their college’s chairman says Institute of Technology Tralee has proper procedures to do so itself.

More than 6,000 students will lose up to €1,510 each in grant aid next year after cuts to the income limits.

The chairman of the Institute of Technology Tralee, Flan Garvey, has been accused of plagiarism in his research project for a master’s degree.

Lisnagarvey staged the greatest comeback in EuroHockey League history to help them overcome long odds and advance to the last 16.

The president of Cork Institute of Technology says the standards needed to become a technological university are too focused on research and not enough on meeting the needs of industry and the regions.

The proposed establishment of a technological university by three colleges in Cork, Kerry and Limerick has drawn mixed reactions.

DUBLIN City University won the prestigious O’Connor Cup for a third successive year in dramatic fashion at blustery UL yesterday.

Dublin City University won the prestigious O’Connor Cup for a third successive year in dramatic fashion at blustery University of Limerick this afternoon.

A NUMBER of institutes of technology are already discussing possible mergers which are to be urged in the long-awaited higher education strategy being published this morning.

IRELAND’S next generation of entrepreneurs have just until close of business tomorrow to submit their winning business plans for the chance of a lifetime to work with some of the country’s biggest business names in a world class environment as part of the pioneering Endeavour programme.

ULSTER Bank chiefs were left red-faced yesterday after it emerged the bank had unwittingly promoted an event in which students were offered free entry to a strip show to be held in a bar in Tallaght.

HUNDREDS of free college training places will be offered from this morning to people who have lost their jobs.

THIRTY students from 14 sporting disciplines were awarded scholarships by the Institute of Technology, Tralee (ITT) this week.

THE overall winner of The Young Entrepreneur Programme Awards 2008 is Neasa FitzPatrick from Coláiste Na Sceilge, Caherciveen, Co Kerry.

CONCERN about an overemphasis on information technology-based projects to create jobs in Kerry was voiced at the weekend, by a leading trade unionist in the county.

CONCERN about an overemphasis on information technology-based projects to create jobs in Kerry was voiced at the weekend, by a leading trade unionist in the county.

Shannon Development is lodging a planning application this week with Kerry County Council for a new 2,500 square metre office building at Kerry Technology Park (KTP), Tralee.

LEADING environmentalist Eanna Ní Lamhna yesterday hit out at “silly nonsense” spoken by people who had no environmental education and who thought humans were the only species on Earth.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT have been drawn against Galway IT in the first round of the Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup.

AN 18-year-old student died yesterday and his life-long friend, also 18, is in intensive care, following what is believed to have been a gas leak in a house in Tralee, Co Kerry.