Students protest lack of facilities at WIT site

STUDENTS took to the streets yesterday to highlight their frustration over lack of facilities at part of Waterford Institute of Technology.

Around one-fifth of the 1,500 students at WIT’s College Street campus took part in the march to the main campus.

WIT Student Union welfare officer Catherine Murphy said their complaints included a shortage of computer facilities, lack of seats in the campus library and not enough classrooms. The site campus is about 30 minutes walk from the main college and the base for around one quarter of WIT’s full-time students studying social care, nursing, art and design and legal studies.