Cork Institute of Technology
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| Motto: | Rísam Uile'(Let us Achieve)' |
| Established: | 1974 |
| President: | Dr. Brendan J. Murphy |
| Students: | 17,000 |
| Location: | Cork, Republic of Ireland |
| Website: | http://www.cit.ie |
Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), formerly Regional Technical College, Cork, is a college located in Cork, Ireland opened in 1973. The institute has 17,000 students (both part-time and full-time) in art, business, engineering, music and science disciplines. The main campus is at Bishopstown, Cork.
The Institutes of Technology Act 2006 designates three schools of the institute;
- Cork School of Music
- Crawford College of Art and Design
- National Maritime College of Ireland
In addition to these three schools there are three academic departments, they are Business & Humanities, Engineering, and Science.
The institute has been named as Institute of Technology of the Year 2006 in The Sunday Times University Guide for Ireland[1].
In 2007 the title of the head of the institute changed from "Director" to "President"[2]. In March 2008 it was announced that the institute was applying for university status[3].
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[edit] History
The Cork Institute of Technology and its predecessor Cork RTC developed from earlier institutions such as the Royal Cork Institution which which existed from 1807 until 1861, and the Crawford Municipal Technical Institute which was founded in 1912, which trained students in Science and Engineering. In 1930 the City of Cork Vocational Education Committee was set up. Cork Regional Technical College was established in 1973 and the Crawford Institute was merged with the new Cork RTC in 1976.
[edit] Cork School of Music
CIT Cork School of Music is located in the centre of Cork City, Ireland. The college was founded in 1878 and became a school of Cork Institute of Technology in 1993. The school currently operates from a five-floor music centre designed by Murray O’Laoire and Buro Happold. The building was opened in 2007, and all operations are currently based there. The School is directed by Dr. Geoffrey Spratt.
[edit] The School
CSM tutors students in a musicianship programme, professional instrumental work, performance (including drama) studies, composition, ensemble work, basic instrumental work, music history, music technology, and Irish traditional music studies. The school also teaches a variety of other subjects.
[edit] The Building
Cork School of Music currently operates from a building on Union Quay in Cork, hosting a large number of Steinway pianos. It is designed by Murray O'Laoire architects who are based in Dublin. The acoustics were provided by Applied Acoustic Design. It incorporates two performance spaces, the Curtis Auditorium, and the Stack Theater.
While the building hosts a full recording suite, it also contains six lecture theaters, the full Fleischman Library, 2 audio labs, an I.T. lab, over 50 tutoring suites, 5 medium sized classrooms, 5 full sized classrooms each acoustically isolated to also act as practice rooms. Each room in the building is equipped with at least one Apple iMac, projector and a speaker system, Sennheiser Evolution radio microphone, Rane rack mixer and dual 15 band graphic EQ, and a Lab Gruppen stereo power amplifer. Under the same roof is a restaurant, and a common room for full-time students with large open plan areas on all floors.
There are a number of light wells, bringing natural light to rooms in the centre of the building, where light would not have been possible. The school is equipped with audio technology that makes it easy for tutors to teach students, with at least one Steinway piano in every room, if not two (to facilitate one on one tutoring and preventing the need to use one piano for two). The school also hosts two new harpsichords constructed by the harpsichord-maker Michael Johnson.
The old CSM building, on Union Quay, was demolished in September 2005.
[edit] Programme
The main programme taught at CSM is the Bachelor of Music degree programme. The school has a staff of approx 120, many of whom teach part-time in their area of musical expertise in addition to working as full-time musicians.
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