“We simply opened our workplace in Dubai to service the Center Jap element, and India can be now our massive progress market,” Vincent Cunnane, president TUS, instructed The PIE Information on the OneStep International International Training Conclave 2024.
The Irish technological college, a merger between the Athlone Institute of Know-how and the Limerick Institute of Know-how, has been increasing its worldwide presence in recent times.
Except for its Dubai workplace, the college has opened scholar liaison workplaces in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
TUS’s Nigeria workplace was launched to assist with recruitment of scholars from the bigger Sub-Saharan African area.
The college has additionally launched its workplaces in Mexico, Malaysia, and China to encourage extra educational and analysis collaborations throughout the area.
TUS additionally has numerous 2+2 diploma preparations with some Canadian faculties.
In India, TUS works with market entry agency, OneStep International, which gives the college with in-country illustration in South Asia.
With over 250 college students from the Indian subcontinent learning at TUS, as beforehand reported by The PIE, the institute is attempting to capitalise on the rising demand for Eire amongst college students.
Over 11,200 Indian college students presently examine in Eire, which is a 75% improve from 5 years in the past.
“Eire is a rising vacation spot amongst Indian college students and primarily based on that success our numbers are rising very considerably,” stated Cunnane.
With over seven campuses throughout Eire, TUS has been capable of obtain the tag of QS 5 star rated college, which assesses inclusivity, internationalisation, employability, educational improvement, arts and tradition, finance, and different components.
Dwelling to over 15,000 college students from over 100 completely different nationalities, TUS additionally has one of many highest employability charges in Eire.
“We will assure that worldwide college students can get a job with their qualification as a result of we now have full employment and employers in Eire are actually keen on having extra expert graduates working for them,” stated Cunnane.
“The Indian group and graduates, particularly, are very effectively revered in Eire. Furthermore Indians are one of many highest paid nationalities in Eire with Indian females making up an enormous a part of that.”
In contrast to different main examine locations, Eire has loads of issues going for the event of its worldwide training sector.
The north-western European nation has a 2030 technique to draw worldwide college students and researchers, versatile working hours, and a two-year stayback visa coverage which stays resistant to adjustments.
The rising curiosity in India led Cunnane to his first ever journey to India because the TUS India workforce organised a networking soiree in New Delhi, attended by distinguished Indian colleges and universities.
Amity College, Bennett College, Geeta College, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Hindu School had been a number of the HEIs that participated within the soiree.
The TUS workforce additionally met with the UGC Chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, because the statutory physique appears to encourage extra partnerships between Indian and worldwide HEIs and department campuses in India.
“We met with the UGC Chairman who outlined India’s imaginative and prescient for the longer term. I used to be actually impressed to listen to how India goals to develop from 45 million college students to 100 million college students in increased training, which is a vastly bold objective,” stated Cunnane.
“So we perceive that India wants assist from throughout the globe to realize that because it appears to afford each scholar a possibility for training by 2047.”
In keeping with Cunnane, TUS is aiming to have extra relationships with equal establishments in India, that means college students can spend the primary two years within the nation and the final two years overseas to conduct analysis.
“We will likely be keen on exploring transnational training alternatives in India with numerous chosen establishments. The objective isn’t just to concentrate on STEM, which is an enormous space for us, but additionally social work, humanities, enterprise, design, and extra.”
TUS already has a partnership with the Nationwide Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, whereby college students from Ahmedabad have entry to the Limerick College of Artwork and Design’s amenities and experience.
We will likely be keen on exploring transnational training alternatives in India with numerous chosen establishments
Vincent Cunnane, TUS
Although Cunnane believes Eire has had a greater coverage trajectory in comparison with different in style examine locations, there are nonetheless some challenges that should be handled.
“The problems are extra common and will not be restricted to Eire however lodging is one thing we now have to look into. We now have a rising inhabitants and stopped constructing housing for a few years after Covid got here alongside,” he stated.
“We now have to mood our progress technique with the truth that the inhabitants is growing in Eire and there’s an lodging situation. In fact Eire has market penetration and recognition, and we now have made enormous strides in that however there are nonetheless some limitations which should be addressed.”
