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Technological University Dublin ARROW@TU Dublin Books Dublin Institute of Technology 2000 The Story of the Dublin Institute of Technology Thomas Duff Dublin Institute of Technology Joe Hegarty Dublin Institute of Technology Matthew Hussey Dublin Institute of Technology Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ditpress Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Duff, Thomas; Hegarty, Joe; and Hussey, Matthew, "The Story of the Dublin Institute of Technology" (2000). Books. 1. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ditpress/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Dublin Institute of Technology at ARROW@TU Dublin. It has been accepted for inclusion in Books by an authorized administrator of ARROW@TU Dublin. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License The Story of the Dublin Institute of Technology Thomas Duff, Academic Registrar Joseph Hegarty, Head, School of Culin.ary Arts and Food Technology Matthew Hussey, Director, Faculty of Science BLACKHALL Publishing This book was typeset by Gough Typesetting Services for BLACKBALL PuBLISHING 26 Eustace Street Dublin 2 Ireland e-mail: blackball @eircom.net www. blackhallpublishing.com ©Thomas Duff, Joseph Hegarty and Matthew Hussey, 2000 ISBN 1 842180 13 4 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior, written permission of the publisher. 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Printed in Ireland by Colour Books Contents Preface ............................................................................................ xv Introduction ................................................................................... xvii SECTION ONE: HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY OF THE DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1 Technical Education in Ireland before 1922 ................................ 3 Early technical/vocational education ................................................ 3 Origins of the Dublin Institute of Technology ................................. 3 Technical School, Kevin Street .................................................. 4 Municipal School of Music, Chatham Row ............................... 7 Municipal Technical Institute, Rathmines ................................. 8 Technical School, Rutland Square ............................................. 9 Technical Institute, Bolton Street ............................................. 10 Other higher education institutions in Ireland ................................ 11 Summary ......................................................................................... 12 2 Development of the Dublin Colleges to the Dublin Institute of Technology .................................................... 13 Developments in the Dublin colleges under the Voc·ational Education Act .................................................................... 13 Teaching staff ........................................................................... 15 Changes in titles of colleges ..................................................... 16 Review of developments in the individual colleges ....................... 17 Institute of Science and Technology/College of Technology, Kevin Street .............................................................................. 17 Municipal School of Music/College of Music, Chatham Row ........................................................................... 20 Rathmines Technical Institute/College of Commerce, Rathmines ................................................................................. 22 School of Commerce and Retail Distribution/College of Marketing and Design, Parnell Square (later on Mountjoy Square) ...................................................... 23 viii The Story of the Dublin Institute of Technology Technical Institute/College of Technology, Bolton Street ....... 25 StMary's College of Domestic Science/College of Catering, Cathal Brugha Street ................................................................ 26 The Ballymun Project ..................................................................... 28 Processing the Ballymun Project proposals ............................. 31 Internal reorganisation within the Dublin colleges ........................ 33 Academic Council .................................................................... 33 Membership of the Academic Council .................................... 34 Terms of reference of the Academic Council .......................... 34 Balance sheet of the work of the Academic Council ............... 36 Establishment of the Dublin Institute of Technology ..................... 36 CDVEC policy document on the unification of the colleges .. 37 Initial development of the Dublin Institute of Technology ............ 38 Governing Body review of the DIT in 1983 ............................ 38 College-based organisational structure .................................... 39 Schools and departments in the colleges ................................. 40 Academic management of each college ................................... 40 General staffing of each college ............................................... 41 Summary ......................................................................................... 41 3 Government Policy and Legislative Backdrop to the Emergence of the DIT ................................................................................ 44 Commission of Inquiry (Technical Education) 1926 ..................... 44 Vocational Education Act 1930 ...................................................... 45 Commission on Higher Education 1960-1967 ............................... 46 The O'Malley proposals for University Reform ............................ 49 Steering Committee on Technical Education 1966-1969 .............. 49 Higher Education Authority Act 1971 ............................................ 51 Central Applications Office 1977 ................................................... 51 National Council for Educational Awards Act 1979 ...................... 52 National.Institute of Higher Education, Limerick 1969 ................. 55 Burke proposals on University Reform .......................................... 55 Outcome of the Burke proposals .............................................. 57 National Institutes of Higher Education Acts 1980 ....................... 58 Green Paper on Education 1985 ..................................................... 59 International Study Group on Technological Education 1986-1987 ....................................................................................... 60 University of Limerick and Dublin City University Acts 1989 ..... 61 Green Paper on Education 1992 ..................................................... 61 Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992 ....................................... 62 Introduction ix Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992 .......................................... 63 Steering Committee on the future development of higher education 1993-1995 ...................................................................... 64 White Paper on Education 1995 ..................................................... 65 Universities Act 1997 ..................................................................... 66 Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 ........................ 69 Summary ......................................................................................... 71 4 Partnership Agreement between CDVEC/DIT and the University of Dublin (1976-present) .................................... 72 Background to the partnership agreement between the CDVEC/DIT and the University of Dublin .................................... 72 Implementation of the partnership agreement ................................ 7 4 Forms of co-operation envisaged ............................................. 75 Development of programmes under the partnership agreement .... 75 Inter-Colleges Committees ............................................................. 77 Development of postgraduate programmes .................................... 77 DITffCD joint research seed funding scheme ........................ 79 Reviews of the partnership agreement in the 1980s ....................... 79 TCD review 1987-1988 ........................................................... 79 DIT/CDVEC review 1989-1990 .............................................. 80 Current stage of the partnership ..................................................... 81 Summary ......................................................................................... 82 5 Dublin Institute of Technology Act 1992 .................................... 84 Academic maturity of the Institute at the start of the 1990s .......... 84 High level of demand for DIT full-time courses ..................... 85 Successful partnership with the University of Dublin ............. 86 The standing of DIT graduates ................................................