'Strategic neglect' of Mayo GMIT campus is slammed

IT'S time to put the ‘Mayo’ back into GMIT and acknowledge its success in conferring awards to 6,000 graduates since 1997 according to Sinn Féin Senator Rose Conway-Walsh.

Speaking after public representatives were invited to a meeting at GMIT this evening, Senator Conway-Walsh said: “The Mayo Campus of GMIT is a hugely successful multi-disciplinary Campus which has offered a whole range of business and technology, construction, nursing, childcare and social care programmes to many people who would not otherwise have access to education.”

“It is my firm belief that there has been a sustained and targeted agenda to dilute and diminish programmes available through the Mayo Campus.

“The strategic neglect of the Mayo Campus including delays in decision making around long term management and programme development has angered many people in Mayo.

“It is not acceptable that short term decisions are now being made based on CAO projections which have been clearly impacted by the actions it has taken in relation to the Mayo Campus since August 2016.

“The actual student numbers over the three year period 2013 to 2016 and the growth and development of lifelong learning participants must be front and centre of any decisions.”