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National Institute for Higher Education

A National Institute for Higher Education (NIHE) was a category of higher education institution established in Ireland to provide advanced third level technical education. This was seen to be an area that was poorly served.

The plan was to see degree level education mainly. The first institution was set up in Limerick, where there had been long-standing demand for a university, in fact a "University of Limerick" was proposed inter alia in the late 1960s by the Lichfield Report, but ultimately it was decided to set up non-university institutions first so they could prove themselves. The institutions were:

• National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin
• National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick

The institution at Limerick was formally announced in 1969, Dublin in 1971. These were de-facto universities from the start, and were later elevated to the level of university after the International Study Group on Technological Education presented its recommendations in the late 1980s to the Government of Ireland. The institutions became, respectively:

• Dublin City University
• University of Limerick

See also

• Education in Ireland
• List of Irish third-level educational institutions

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