Waterford IT ‘cannot apply alone to become university’

Further meetings with Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan are planned for Waterford Institute of Technology management after she told them they could not apply on their own to become a university.

However, it is understood that, between now and the next meeting with the minister on November 3, WIT management will not conside any lifting of the suspension of its merger works with Institute of Technology Carlow.

Its decision to call a halt to those activities on Tuesday, despite an agreement last month about progressing their planned joint application for technological university (TU) status, prompted yesterday’s meeting at the Department of Education.