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MUNSTER Technological University Societies came out as winners at this year’s Board of Irish College Societies (BICS) Awards taking home two awards. Over 300 students attended the 2022 BICS awards ceremony last night which took place at the Clayton Whites Hotel, Wexford. Representing MTU, there were students from a vast […]

A NEW collaborative project aimed at developing a low carbon roadmap for Ireland’s bioeconomy, will be led by Munster Technological University (MTU) with Teagasc, NUI Galway and the Central Statistics Office of Ireland. INFORMBIO, funded through the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s Competitive Research Call, will develop a […]

A STUDENT from the Munster Technological University Kerry campus is off to China later this year to represent her country. The National Cookery Skills Competition for World Skills Ireland  took place last week in the Dundalk Institute of Technology. Natalia Leane a 2nd Year Culinary Student at MTU Kerry Campus […]

BA Food Business Innovation students at the MTU Kerry Campus partook in the Rare Disease Ireland #RaiseAToastie campaign to support and raise awareness of the 300,000 people living in Ireland with a Rare Disease on International Rare Disease Day. For the annual awareness campaign Rare Disease Ireland encouraged people across […]

STUDENTS completing the Agricultural Engineering four year degree course at Munster Technological University’s Kerry campus in Tralee are routinely offered lucrative contracts with design and engineering firms across Europe even before their final exams, such is the demand for highly-skilled graduates in the sector, programme leaders say. The renowned, industry-focused […]

MTU students brought a bit of a Christmas buzz to campus to the Tralee North Campus on Wednesday with an outdoor Christmas Market. Following a challenging 20 months for students and staff of MTU Kerry with the onset of Covid-19, final year BA Event Management organised the market featuring the […]

THE Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022 has placed Munster Technological University (MTU) as both the highest ranked of Ireland’s Technological Universities and also the winner of a special award – University of the Year for COVID Impact. Professor Maggie Cusack, President of MTU, is delighted that this has been recognised […]

THE Munster Technological University Tralee campus hosted a range of events for young people as part of the Kerry Science Festival. This family showcase event on Saturday was a great success with the 650 free places on the array of workshops and shows — taking place safely and spread out over […]

A FLAG raising ceremony took place this morning at both Munster Technological University campuses in Tralee and Cork to mark the establishment of the new University on January 1, 2021. MTU President, Prof. Maggie Cusack  welcomed Mr Micheál Martin TD, An Taoiseach and Mr Simon Harris TD, Minister for Further […]

OVER €535,000 in student assistance and wellbeing supports has been announced for Munster Technological University students. €238,144 in funding for MTU Kerry campus students through the Student Assistance Fund (SAF). A further €301,000 in funding will be made available in funding for student mental health services across the entire MTU […]

MINISTER for for Further, Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, was in Tralee yesterday to visit the Munster Technological University (MTU) Tralee campus, Kerry College campuses in Clash and Monavalley as well as Tralee Youthreach centre. He was joined by Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD on […]

THE Spark Society on the Kerry campus of Munster Technological University (MTU) are in the running in two categories in the upcoming National Board of Irish College Societies awards (BICS). The BICS is a national organisation that was founded in 1995 and whose role is to provide a national forum […]

MINISTER for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD and Munster Technological University (MTU) have today announced the appointment of Mr Jimmy Deenihan as Chairperson of MTU’s Governing Body. Mr Deenihan takes up the role on foot of a public process carried out by the Department […]

MUNSTER Technological University has secured €2,219,980 in funding to provide 837 places under the Government’s Springboard+ and Human Capital Initiatives for the academic year 2021/2022. In total, MTU is offering 28 Springboard+ courses as part of its suite of part-time offering. A further €616,400 was received to offer 106 places […]

A NEW education tool for children with haemophilia and their families has been created through an innovative collaboration involving students from the Creative Media Department at the Kerry campus of the Munster Technological University, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin and the Irish Haemophilia Society. ‘My Buddy Cormac’, an informative and […]

Six Munster Technological University (Kerry Campus) staff were the recipients of ‘Teaching Hero’ awards in a virtual ceremony live streamed across social media from Dublin. Professor Muiris O’Laoire, Margaret Finch, and Dr Patrick McGarty from the School of Health and Social Sciences along with colleagues Feargus Dunne, Fiona Tobin, and […]

FUNDED by Enterprise Ireland, Munster Technological University (MTU) will spend €3.5m over the next five years on the New Frontiers Programme to support hundreds of entrepreneurs and to deliver 75 new companies in the South West Region. This is a substantial injection of funding for the New Frontiers programme with delivery being […]

IRELAND’S premier virtual, augmented and mixed reality suite at the Agritech Centre Of Excellence (ACE), hosted a virtual showcase of its facilities based on the Kerry Campus of Munster Technological University on Monday. Funded by Enterprise Ireland, Kerry County Council, as well as industry partners Dairymaster, McHale Engineering and Abbey […]

MUNSTER Technological University has been awarded a community radio broadcast licence by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. The licence affords MTU―Kerry Campus its inaugural FM radio station, and broadcasting will take place from its North Campus studio in Tralee. Head of School of Business, Computing and Humanities, Ms Mary Rose Stafford said; “Community radio […]

MUNSTER Technological University (MTU) have announced the establishment of a university-wide initiative in their campuses in Tralee and Cork to support students who are care leavers. The term ‘care leaver’ is used to refer to any adult who spent time in out-of-home care as a child e.g. in foster care, […]

MUNSTER Technological University has announced today the launch of a new cluster to accelerate momentum and support the growing circular bioeconomy in South-West Ireland, funded by Enterprise Ireland. By 2030, it is expected that 1 million jobs in the bioeconomy will be created across Europe. The MTU believes this is […]

THE Kerry campus of Munster Technological University is to host a virtual information evening on Tuesday, January 19 at 7pm for parents of Leaving Certificate students or anyone considering a college application in 2021. Guest speaker on the evening is Catherine O’Connor, Education Consultant & Author of ‘Cracking the College […]

IRELAND’S newest technological university is established today. Munster Technological University (MTU) is a consortium of Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) and Institute of Technology Tralee (ITT) and was designated as a technological university earlier this year. MTU is a multi-campus technological university, providing academic programmes that support student development and […]

THE Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, has today announced that Professor Maggie Cusack is to be appointed the President of Munster Technological University (MTU). MTU will be officially established on 1st January 2021 and will be Ireland’s newest technological university. The consortium […]

THE Institute of Technology Tralee (ITT) and  Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) will  join to become the Munster Technological University on January 1, 2021. An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD, Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh TD and Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor made the announcement […]

THE Institute of Technology Tralee has now started taking applications for the position of President of the college. Dr Oliver Murphy’s five year contract is coming to an end and the successful candidate will be taking on the role at a very important time for the college, as it prepares to merge […]