Galway Bay fm newsroom – The President of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology says the college is working with the Higher Education Authority to improve its performance in an evaluation survey.
GMIT is one of three colleges which have been threatened with a million euro worth of penalties for poor performance.
Along with Dundalk Institute of Technology and the National College of Art and Design, GMIT has been warned it’ll be punished for failing to meet targets set out by the Higher Education Authority.
It’s understood the colleges fall short on research, student numbers, income generation and international focus.
But they can escape the fines if they submit plans to the HEA explaining how they’ll tackle the problems.
President of GMIT, Dr. Fergal Barry says the poor performance by the college are not related to the standard of academic performance.
President Barry says GMIT is working with the Higher Education Authority on a number of actions to improve performance:
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