DIT cuts to centre on music college

POTENTIAL music stars of the future will lose out on their chance to shine because of cutbacks at Dublin Institute of Technology, parents warned last night.

DIT’s Conservatory of Music and Drama is to be worst hit by funding and job cuts, including this week’s announcement that 84 part-time lecturers are to be laid off.

Of the 420 teaching hours being slashed, the Teachers Union of Ireland estimates at least 200 hours are being cut in the music college.