University of Limerick
The university is located along the River Shannon, on a 200 acre (0.8 km²) site in the 600 acre (2.4 km²) National Technological Park at Plassey, 5 km from Limerick city centre. The university has currently in excess of 11,000 full-time undergraduate students and 1,500 part-time students. There are also over 800 research postgraduates and 1,300 taught postgraduate students at the university. Each year over 2,000 students are allocated work placement, the Cooperative Education programme, one of the first such programmes in the State.
Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT)
Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) is an institution of higher education at Moylish Park, Caherdavin, in Limerick, Ireland and offers courses at certificate, diploma and degree level in business, engineering and science as well as other academic disciplines. The institute also offers courses in modern apprenticeships and adult education. Art and design courses are offered at another campus in Clare Street near the city centre – the Limerick School of Art and Design A Regional Technical College was planned for Limerick along with the other colleges in the 1960s however when NIHE, Limerick, was announced the plans were dropped and instead Limerick College of Art, Commerce and Technology (Limerick CoACT) developed in an ad-hoc manner eventually developing into Regional Technical College, Limerick in 1993 and retained this name until adopting its current name in 1998.
National University of Ireland, Galway
The National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI, Galway) (
Irish Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh or OÉ, Gaillimh)
can trace its existence to 1845 as Queen's College, Galway and was known until recently as University College, Galway (UCG) (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile, Gaillimh or COG). The university is located in
Galway,
Ireland. The college opened for teaching in 1849 as Queen's College, Galway with 37 professors and 91 students and a year later became a part of the
Queen's University of Ireland. In 1906 Alice Perry graduated from the college, believed to be the first female engineering graduate in the world[1] having received a first class honours degree in civil engineering. The Irish Universities Act, 1908 made this college a
constituent college of the new
National University of Ireland, and under a new charter the name of the college was changed to University College, Galway. The university college was given special statutory responsibility under the University College, Galway Act, 1929 in respect of the use of the
Irish language as the working language of the college. The university college retained the name University College, Galway until 1997 when the Universities Act, 1997 changed the name to National University of Ireland, Galway and made the college a constituent university of the National University of Ireland
The university is located near the centre of the city and stretches along the River Corrib. The oldest part of the university, the Quadrangle, designed by John Benjamin Keane, is a replica of Christ Church, one of the colleges at the University of Oxford. The stone from which it is built was supplied locally. Newer parts of the university sprang up in the 1970s and were designed by architects Scott Tallon Walker. The 1990s also saw considerable development including the conversion of an old factory into a student centre and sports hall.
- Ireland has one of the best
internationally recognised education systems.
- Shannon Region has an extensive and experienced knowledge-based human resource pool.
- The nearby universities at Limerick, Cork and Galway, etc. – all with advanced R&D facilities – produce thousands of graduates each year.
- Ireland has the youngest population in Europe, with over 40% under the age of 25 years.