Different class: Island hosts third-level degree

FORGET UCC, CIT or even Trinity — in what is being hailed as a major education breakthrough, a small island off the West Cork coast is now the venue for a third-level degree.

Sherkin Island, off the coast of Baltimore in West Cork, will become the first island location to host a third-level degree course — being the official location for a full Honours BA Degree Programme in Visual Art.

So far, 14 mature students between the ages of 20 and 80, have signed up for the course which will be taught in the island Community Hall.