€70,000 branding budget planned for Munster Technological University

Cork and Tralee institutes of technology plan to spend part of a €70,000 branding budget to assess if they should change the name of the technological university to be created by their merger.

The legislation to formally create a TU sector has yet to be passed, but Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and Institute of Technology Tralee (ITT) expect to apply next year to create a new entity.

It has been provisionally titled Munster Technological University since talks began five years ago and is now expected to enrol its first students in September 2019.