Institutes face high standards process

The high standards that colleges will have to meet to become a technological university mean it could be at least two years before any such institution is created.

The Higher Education Authority (HEA) is publishing the process and the criteria that will have be met today, with four groups of two or more institutes of technology already planning joint applications.

The most prominent has been the campaign on the proposed merger of Waterford Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Carlow to form a technological university for the south-east.