WIT president unlikely to return after adviser role

The president of Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Ruaidhrí Neavyn, is unlikely to return to the job after his move to advise on higher education policy was approved yesterday.

Although his role at the Higher Education Authority (HEA) will be on secondment rather than permanent, he has less than two years left of a five-year term at WIT.

The college’s governing body accepted a Department of Education request for Mr Neavyn to become adviser to HEA chief executive Tom Boland on the institute of technology sector.