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Ireland: The Challenges of Building Research in a Binary Higher Education Culture

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The Research Mission of Higher Education Institutions outside the University Sector

Part of the book series: Higher Education Dynamics ((HEDY,volume 31))

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This chapter discusses the role of research within the Irish Institutes of Technology. Ireland has operated a binary system since the 1970s, but like experience elsewhere, statutory instruments as a means for regulating diversity are becoming recognisably too restrictive and inflexible. There is no official research policy that relates specifically to the Institutes of Technology although there are references in the underpinning legislation and other documents that IoTs should focus on applied research with a regional focus. In reality, differences in core and capital funding, and curriculum and qualifications level, between IoTs and universities have played a greater role in defining respective research mission.

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  1. Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU), Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland

    Ellen Hazelkorn & Amanda Moynihan

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    Benedetto Lepori

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Hazelkorn, E., Moynihan, A. (2010). Ireland: The Challenges of Building Research in a Binary Higher Education Culture. In: Kyvik, S., Lepori, B. (eds) The Research Mission of Higher Education Institutions outside the University Sector. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9244-2_10

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