International Study Group On Technological Education
In November 1986 the International Study Group on Technological Education was established by the Minister for Education.
The chair was T.P. Hardiman, chairman of the Investment Bank of Ireland, whilst the deputy chair was Emeritus Professor of Business Administration at University College, Dublin. The other three members were:
- Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University and Vice President of the Royal Society
- President of the University of Waterloo
- Vice-President of the German Research Foundation at Hamburg University of Technology
The institutions were de facto universities from the start, and were elevated to the level of university in 1989 after the International Study Group on Technological Education presented its recommendations to the Irish Government on their status. The original brief of this report was to investigate the creation of a single National Technological University:
- ...to examine third-level technological education outside the universities and to consider the case of a new Technological University...
However the study group found that this title would not be appropriate considering that non-technical disciplines were offered and that one university might limit the innovation which had become the trademark of the two separate institutions:
- ...the NIHE Limerick having the title University of Limerick and the NIHE Dublin having the title Dublin City University or the University of Leinster.
- The title 'technological university" should not be used.
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