National College of Ireland

National College of Ireland
Established	1951
President	Dr. Paul Mooney
Students	5,000
Location	Dublin, Ireland
Campus	IFSC
Former names	National College of Industrial Relations, The Catholic Workers College
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Website	http://www.ncirl.ie

National College of Ireland (NCI) offers full and part-time courses from foundation to degree and postgraduate level. All courses are fully accredited and delivered from the IFSC campus and across a network of 30 regional centres. The college's specialist areas include business, human resource management, accountancy, finance, computing and community studies.

NCI's IFSC Campus

History

National College of Ireland started out as The Catholic Workers College.

Lectures were led by a handful of dedicated Jesuits two nights a week, with 103 registered students in the first year. Within 10 years, student numbers had dramatically increased. Links with trade unions deepened, as did formal collaborations with employer and management groups.

By 1966, nearly 1,300 students from trade union and business management backgrounds were learning together at the re-branded National College of Industrial Relations (NCIR).

The college again re-branded as the National College of Ireland (NCI) in 1998 with an expanded National Campus Network and an array of outreach programmes across the country.

As the College continued to grow rapidly, the land and buildings at Sandford Road were generously transferred by the Jesuits to the NCI Board of Management which transformed the future of the College forever.

NCI relocated to a 0.8 hectare site on Mayor Street in the Dublin Docklands. A €25,000,000 fundraising campaign resulted in the development of a modern campus including 53 residential apartments accommodating 286 students and a new Business and Research Building.

The new campus in the IFSC has become active seven-days-a-week for 5000 full and part-time students and over 252 full-time and 133 part-time staff.

The current president of the College is Dr. Paul Mooney

Activities

Full and part-time courses in business, human resource management, accountancy, finance, computing and community studies are offered through the College’s three Schools; the School of Business, the School of Computing and the School of Community Studies. All full-time programmes are subsidised under the free-fees initiative and the Higher Education Grant Scheme.

Degrees and certificates awarded by the college are accredited by HETAC, the Higher Education and Training Awards Council, a government body that validates educational awards in the Irish non-university sector.

College sports clubs and societies

• National College of Ireland Computing Society
• National College of Ireland Football Club
• Rugby team
• Basketball team
• Table tennis team
• Hockey team
• GAA team
• Chess club
• Hurling team^[1]
• Karting club
• Lacrosse
• Reach Out society
• War Games society
• NCISUN society ^[2]

External links

• National College of Ireland Website
• The National College of Ireland has undertaken the Knowledge Economy Skills Passport in conjunction with Musgrave

References

• [1]Profile on National College of Ireland