MTU among universities at 'breaking point' with lack of funding

Tim Horgan, Head of Faculty of Engineering and Science at Munster Technological University (MTU) said their apprenticeship programmes are already “at breaking point” without more capital funding to expand their facilities.

Munster Technological University (MTU) is one of a number of higher education institutions at “breaking point” due to a lack of State investment, an Oireachtas Committee has heard.

The 2016 Cassells Report on the future of funding higher education recommended that additional annual funding of €600m be delivered to institutions by 2021. The actual increase in direct state recurring funding for higher education in 2021 was just €121m.