DIT music courses targeted in cutbacks

MUSIC courses will be among a number of areas hit by cutbacks at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), it was confirmed yesterday.

DIT president Dr Brendan Goldsmith said there will be cuts to part-time programmes at the institute’s Conservatory of Music and Drama. However, they will be less than the average reductions in other areas.

Dr Goldsmith was responding to angry parents of children studying at the college, who fear they will have nowhere to learn music as a result. The conservatory, formerly DIT College of Music, has 1,450 part-time pupils who are mostly primary and second level students.