Development Plans and Objectives. Sets out Limerick Institute of Technology’s development plans and objectives using standardised templates. These development plans / objectives must be taken from the institution’s own properly formulated strategic plan. The quality of the institution’s strategic planning process will be evaluated. 10
Development Plans and Objectives. Sets out Letterkenny Institute of Technology’s development plans and objectives using standardised templates. These development plans / objectives must be taken from the institution’s own properly formulated strategic plan. The quality of the institution’s strategic planning process will be evaluated. 14
Development Plans and Objectives. 5.1 Regional clusters Please provide a brief summary of National University of Ireland, Maynooth’s strategy and chosen objectives in relation to its regional cluster. This should set out: Member institutions Governance arrangements Priority objectives for the cluster. Please note any external factors or assumptions that might affect institutional progress towards stated development objectives. NUI Maynooth’s strategic goal is ‘to maximise our unique and distinctive contribution to the national system of higher education through a set of purposeful and sustained strategic partnerships at regional and national level, and to extend its international reach through a network of global partnerships ‘. NUI Maynooth will collaborate with Dublin City University, Athlone Institute of Technology and Dundalk Institutive of Technology to form an effective regional cluster. The centrepiece of NUI Maynooth’s collaborative network is the 3U Partnership involving Dublin City University (DCU) and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). It involves a deep and comprehensive collaborative engagement between three university-level institutions across all domains of academic activity, including joint taught, research and internationalisation programmes. The partner institutions are committed not only to collaboration but to strategic co-development, taking a coordinated approach to the future development of each institution, and in particular its discipline mix, sub-disciplinary specialisation, educational provision and research capacity. The 3U partnership is complemented by separate strategic partnerships between NUI Maynooth and Athlone Institute of Technology, and between DCU and DkiIT. While recognising the different missions of the Universities and the Institutes and the related differentiation in student profiles and programme provision, we have identified potential for collaborations in academic programmes, access transfer and progression, commercialisation and knowledge transfer and internationalisation. AIT, NUI Maynooth, DCU and DkIT have built on these partnerships to establish an effective regional cluster. This cluster represents the largest, most diverse, and most complex cluster within the new higher education landscape, involving 11 separate and autonomous entities including universities, institutes of technology, colleges of education and other specialist institutions, from the public and private sectors2. This collaborative structure was endorse...
Development Plans and Objectives. Sets out the National College of Art and Design’s development plans and objectives using standardised templates. These development plans / objectives must be taken from the institution’s own properly formulated strategic plan. The quality of the institution’s strategic planning process will be evaluated. 12
Development Plans and Objectives. 5.1 Regional clusters Please provide a brief summary of the National College of Art and Design’s strategy and chosen objectives in relation to its regional cluster. This should set out: Member institutions Governance arrangements Priority objectives for the cluster. Please note any external factors or assumptions that might affect institutional progress towards stated development objectives. Institutionally, NCAD is primarily focused on enhanced relations with UCD up to and including merger. Also, sectorally in the context of the recent MOU between UCD and IADT, on a specific three-way institutional cluster where NCAD acts as a recognised college of UCD with course validation already in place; and IADT operates as a stand-alone IOT in an alliance with UCD. There is provision and commitment in place to collaborate programmatically in areas such as education and training, research, scholarship and outreach, consultancy and internationalisation as well as sharing services which will underpin relations between all three institutions. In the context of the UCD/NCAD/IADT cluster, as of now, each institution retains responsibility for developing its overall strategy, managing its own corporate, financial and administrative affairs and maintaining existing campuses. However, NCAD and UCD are at advanced negotiations about a possible merger and also about NCAD combining with relevant aspects of provision in UCD (such as the School of Architecture) to form a new college of UCD, while retaining its distinctive mission for art and design within university education, in line with the HEA recommendation in the Report on the Education Landscape, recently published. NCAD is also a partner in the Dublin Regional Higher Education Alliance (DRHEA) and a programming proposal by the Alliance on widening access has already been submitted to the HEA Strategic Innovation and Development Fund, articulating a work strand of the DRHEA cluster. In the context of the review of initial teacher education (ITE), NCAD is negotiating with partners TCD, UCD, and MIE for the development of a single institute of education for the provision of ITE and other areas of teacher education with the proviso that all art and design teacher education should be provided nationally by NCAD (see section 3.1 above). NCAD has also joined IADT/TCD/DCU/UCD and NUIM/DIT and RIAM in an embryonic regional thematic cluster around the development of creative industries on foot of which an application has bee...
Development Plans and Objectives. 5.1 Regional clusters Please provide a brief summary of the University of Limerick’s strategy and chosen objectives in relation to its regional cluster. This should set out: Member institutions Governance arrangements Priority objectives for the cluster. Please note any external factors or assumptions that might affect institutional progress towards stated development objectives. Within our region, autonomous but connected higher education institutions (HEIs) already work in competitive collaboration, aligning HE provision and engaging with the region’s civil society and public/private sectors. We fully support the view expressed in Towards a Future Higher Education Landscape that “the HE system must play a lead role in the creation, fostering and growth of potential new spheres of economic activity and social innovation”,
Development Plans and Objectives. Preamble ITB has taken the 6 strategic objectives in its Strategic Plan (See Appendix 8) and mapped them against the HEA format as required.
5.1 Regional clusters Please provide a brief summary of Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown’s strategy and chosen objectives in relation to its regional cluster. This should set out: Member institutions Governance arrangements Priority objectives for the cluster. Please note any external factors or assumptions that might affect institutional progress towards stated development objectives. ITB is part of a Regional Cluster comprised of the following HE providers:
1. DIT;
2. IT Tallaght;
3. NUIM;
Development Plans and Objectives. Sets out University College Dublin’s development plans and objectives using standardised templates. These development plans / objectives must be taken from the institution’s own properly formulated strategic plan. The quality of the institution’s strategic planning process will be evaluated. 9
Development Plans and Objectives. Sets out IT Tralee’s development plans and objectives using standardised templates. These development plans / objectives must be taken from the institution’s own properly formulated strategic plan. The quality of the institution’s strategic planning process will be evaluated. 9
Development Plans and Objectives. Sets out IT Sligo’s development plans and objectives using standardised templates. These development plans / objectives must be taken from the institution’s own properly formulated strategic plan. The quality of the institution’s strategic planning process will be evaluated. 11
