Higher Education the Skills Perspective

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Higher Education -the Skills Perspective

• by
• Dr Brendan J. Murphy
• President, Cork Institute of Technology
• 23 October 2008

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Cork Renaissance A vision for the Future
People Creative, Innovative, Flexible,
Educated Cork - a City Region
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National Framework of Qualification
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National Framework of Qualification
Higher Education Major Awards Credits Leve
l Taught Higher Certificate 120 L6 Degree
180 L7 Honours Degree 180-240 L8 Masters 3
00 L9 Full year of study is 60
credits Research Research Masters L9 PhD
L10
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Cork Higher Education Institutions
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Continuing Education (CE)Continuing Professional
Development (CPD)

• CIT is one of the leading providers in the
• State for this type of education in
• Engineering, Science, Business and
• Applied Humanities at L6-L9, with over
• 3000 students, the vast majority of
• whom are currently in work.

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National Skills Strategy
Work Force Numbers Base Line 2005 2
million Vision 2020 2.4 million -1.4m
Existing Workforce - 640k New Entrants -
310k Inward Migration Over 50 of those in
work in 2020 are in the workforce NOW
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National Skills Strategy
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National Skills Strategy
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How is CIT meeting this challenge?

• CIT goes out to employers and employer groups -
• Identify needs, flexible delivery off-campus etc.
• Recognition of Prior Learning 300 pa.
• 3000 in workforce take our on-campus courses
• Lack of Higher Education funding in this vital
  area

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Coherent and Diverse Higher Education Provision
in Cork

• CIT and UCC
• Both university-level different but
  complementary
• Collaboration where our city region needs it,
  e.g.
• Cork Centre for Architectural Education
• Science - Biomedical Science
• Engineering -Biomedical Engineering

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Coherent and Diverse Higher Education Provision
in Cork

• Research is all about collaboration and
  partnership to
• create critical mass
• Tyndall National - First Memorandum of
• Institute Understanding
• - CIT _at_ Tyndall
• Network Embedded
• Systems - Lead CIT, major
• collaborator UCC
• - Building a new research
• centre at CIT

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Innovation and Applied Research

• CITs close engagement with Industry
• Rubicon Innovation Centre
• Strategic Applied Research Centres
• ICT
• Medical Devices
• Photonics

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Unique Strengths
National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) CIT
Cork School of Music CIT Crawford College of Art
Design Blackrock Castle Observatory
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What is the Cork BRAND?

• Vital to developing a strategy for success
• CIT has sought a Technological University
• brand for our graduates and for our
• city region
• CIT will collaborate, adapt and contribute to
• Corks Renaissance

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