andMr. Coughlan asked the Minister for Education how many students in Kevin Street and Bolton Street Colleges of Technology, Dublin, are doing work to degree level.
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I understand from the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee that the number of students at (a) Bolton Street College and (b) Kevin Street College, Dublin, doing work to degree level, is 385 and 106, respectively, in the present session.
Who confers the degrees? Is it one of the universities?
Pending the enactment of legislation to deal with this particular situation of non-university students doing courses of degree standard, the situation at present is that, as far as post-degree courses are concerned, these qualifications at the Colleges of Technology I have mentioned are recognised as the basis on which masterships can be pursued at the universities. We have reached the position during the past 12 months where the university institutions in this country recognise the qualifications achieved in engineering and in architecture by the College of Technology to the extent that the students concerned, although they have not got degrees, can pursue a mastership at the university on the basis of the qualification achieved at the Colleges of Technology.
Or a doctorate?
Yes.
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andMr. Coughlan asked the Minister for Education how many students from Kevin Street and Bolton Street Colleges of Technology, Dublin, take extern degrees from British universities; and why they cannot get a degree from the National University of Ireland.
I understand from the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee that students from the Bolton Street College, Dublin, do not normally take extern university degrees.
In 1967, seven part-time students and in 1968 four part-time students of Kevin Street College, Dublin, sat the External Degree Examination for the B.Sc. Degree of the University of London. Both colleges provide full professional courses which are not geared towards university degrees.
The National University of Ireland has no provision for the award of degrees to extern students.