#cokrharbour – The National Maritime College of Ireland at Ringaskiddy, in Cork Harbour, the first higher education facility in the State to be built using the PPP process, marked its 10th year as it hosted the Cork Institute of Technology summer conferrings. Degrees awarded included BSc in Nautical Science, Bachelor of Engineering in Marine & Plant Engineering and Bachelor of Arts in Leadership Management & Naval Studies. For the first time PhD candidates are being presented at the CIT Summer conferrings.
Speaking at the conferrings, the President of CIT Dr Brendan Murphy, spoke of the achievements of all those being conferred, particularly the PhD candidates: "The individual research projects completed by today's conferees are the culmination of long years of endeavour with many a twist and turn between start and finish, that being the nature of research.
Doctoral programmes represent the pinnacle of academic achievement and are a growing aspect of CIT's overall strategic mission which we intend to see carried through to our designation as the Munster Technological University."