Training centre to become digital 'college of future' as part of €100m investment

Technology teaching and learning centre will see number of apprentices almost double to around 1,600 a year

Minister Simon Harris meets Kerrie Anne Fitzgerald, an electrial apprentice at Cork College of FET, which has been designated as one of 10 'colleges of the future'. Pictures: Jim Coughlan.

A training centre is to be converted to a digital 'college of the future' as part of an estimated €100m investment in third level and further education projects in Cork.

Details of the three projects were confirmed by Higher Education Minister Simon Harris during a visit to the Cork Education and Training Board (ETB) Bishopstown campus.