Call for colleges to provide wider range of part-time courses

THIRD-level colleges must urgently provide a wider range of part-time degree courses, the head of their funding agency has claimed.

Higher Education Authority (HEA) chairman Michael Kelly made the call to universities and institutes of technology as more than 150 of Europe’s leading educationalists and business people gathered in Dublin to discuss interaction between third-level colleges and industry.

He said the colleges need to significantly increase their portfolio of flexible and part-time learning opportunities.