Dublin Institute of Technology

At Dublin Institute of Technology, innovation is our tradition, and we have produced generations of leaders in a range of fields from business; law; social sciences; tourism & hospitality; the creative & visual arts to engineering & the built environment. Our lively City-Centre campuses, including our new research and innovation hub at Grangegorman, are home to more than 20,000 students from Ireland and abroad, creating a culturally diverse and stimulating learning and research environment.

DIT will soon join forces with IT Tallaght and IT Blanchardstown to form a Technological University catering for the Greater Dublin Region and beyond. Three physical campuses and a fourth digital campus will create an incomparable institution of higher learning offering wide-ranging opportunities to many more generations of leaders in the years to come.

A comprehensive, dual-sector doctoral-awarding institution, DIT combines the academic excellence of a traditional university with professional, career-oriented learning, preparing graduates for productive leadership roles. The core values reflected in its mission emphasize student-centered learning, useful knowledge, rigorous processes of discovery and critical enquiry, and support for entrepreneurship and diversity.

DIT undertakes research that is nationally relevant, internationally competitive and strategically important. It is strongly focused on problem-solving, and on social and technological development and innovation that advances human knowledge and makes a real impact on people’s life experience. Research is conducted through two research institutes – Focas, which concentrates on new materials and technologies and the Environmental Sustainability and Health Institute (ESHI) - and in 16 designated centres organised around strengths in food and health sciences; social, economic and business development; environmental sustainability; information and communication technologies; and creative arts and media.

Close engagement locally and globally with society and the economy, and collaborative links with a range of world-class companies and academic institutions internationally are essential components in everything DIT does. In addition to bilateral institutional links, DIT participates as a full member of the European University Association (EUA) and the International Association of Universities (IAU).

Dublin is a lively European capital city with a vibrant cultural life and a large, young, student population. Currently based on six campus sites in the city centre, within the next few years, DIT will relocate all its activities to a new education and research campus in the heart of the city at Grangegorman. The new campus will be a unique international innovation hub for the Dublin region, with education, research and health facilities co-located with industry, business incubation and community enterprise. To find out more about the Grangegorman project see here.

Located in the heart of Ireland’s capital city, Dublin Institute of Technology provides an innovative, responsive and caring learning environment for a diverse range and level of programmes to students of all ages and backgrounds.

combines the academic quality of a traditional university with career-focussed learning, discovery and the application of knowledge, emphasises excellence in learning, teaching, scholarship, research and support for entrepreneurship,, contributes to technological, economic, social and cultural progress, and is engaged with and within our community.

The Academic Quality Assurance office is also responsible for coordinating and managing the business of the Academic Council and its Sub Committees such as Academic Quality Assurance, Apprentice Education, and Recruitment & Admissions and for a range of sub-groups and working parties and bringing forward reports to the Institute’s Governing Body in this respect.

The Office plays an important role in academic policy formulation and development which extends to implementing, reviewing and up-dating a range of academic policies including the Handbook for Academic Quality Enhancement and the Institute’s General Assessment Regulations, for example.

The Office is also responsible for engaging with national and international HE quality networks and agencies and has membership of the Irish Higher Education Quality Network and sub-groups of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland. Further, the Office has a responsibility within the Institute in relation to the Bologna process.

The Office is closely involved in arrangements in relation to partnerships with external institutions/organizations and deals with enquiries in relation to the placement of the Institute’s awards.