The Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee has told junior minister for skills John Halligan to clarify why he criticised the group for examining financial issues at Waterford IT, amid claims of an attempt to block any investigation that may damage his constituency.

The Higher Education Authority is to appoint an international expert to validate an internal review of processes within Waterford Institute of Technology, following a request by the president of the college.

Decade-old computers and IT equipment are stopping institutes of technology from being at the cutting edge of their fields, a new report warns. 

It was the day space age met planet ploughing on the tillage fields of Scraggan.

A sixth facilitator in two years has been appointed to try to get Carlow and Waterford Institutes of Technology back talking about merger plans for a possible joint university application.

Senior figures at two third-level colleges in the southeast have given positive soundings about the prospect of restarting talks on a university for the region, despite serious problems highlighted in a plan.

The head of an award- winning research centre at Waterford Institute of Technology has been chosen to lead the college through an expected period of turbulence.

Waterford Institute of Technology will not take part in a process to try to put merger plans with its Carlow counterpart back on track for a joint technological university application.

Two of Ireland’s leading technology research centres have teamed up in the hope of landing a multimillion-euro funding support.

The umbrella body for the country’s technology colleges hopes to double the number of start-up companies emerging from them and the level of funding going into them before 2020.

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A new €5m building to house telecommunications research and development could help deliver up to 600 jobs through commercialising research at Waterford Institute of Technology.

A research facility aimed at the financial services and eco-innovation was officially opened in Kilkenny yesterday by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

WATERFORD is setting its sights on attracting some of the world’s top telecommunications software companies to the region.