A team of international foreign students has beaten off stiff local competition to win the IT Sligo Student Enterprise Competition. The four members, who are studying at the Institute under the EU’s Erasmus international student exchange programme, pipped three other ...Read More
Archived News from ITSligo
Craftsman Conor Chosen for World Skills Expo
Conor Scanlon (21) from Collooney, Co Sligo has been named at a recent award ceremony in IT Sligo as Ireland’s representative in Precision Die Engineering at the 42nd World Skills Competition, Germany, in July. The final year apprentice, who works ...Read More
Karate Kid Liam Wins Five Medals at World Championships
IT Sligo martial arts star and Sports Scholar Liam Codd from Ballygawley, Co Sligo has certainly come of age in his specialist sport, karate. He won three gold medals at the recent W.T.K.A (World Traditional Karate Kickboxing Kung Fu & ...Read More
International Students Receive Parade Award
Two groups of students taking part in this year’s St Patrick’s Day Parade in Sligo were recognised with special awards by the Parade Committee. The International Students won ‘Best Novelty’ and students studying Fine Art were also part of ...Read More
IT Sligo Supports Team Sligo Tourism Initiative
Tourism ‘A Vital Economic Lifeline’, Says IT Sligo Survey Director First-time visitors to Sligo are “surprised and blown away” by the county’s beauty and its many attractions, according to Ann Higgins, the Head of Tourism, Marketing and Sport at IT Sligo. ...Read More
Dragons’ Den Ramona Makes a Pitch for STEM
Science and technology hold out the strongest employment prospects for today’s teenagers, Dragons’ Den star Ramona Nicholas told students at a special event promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Subjects at IT Sligo during Enterprise & Innovation Week. “STEM ...Read More
Women’s Soccer Team win Sixth Premier Title
IT Sligo Women’s Soccer team won the Premier League last night for the sixth time in the Institute’s history, with an emphatic 4-1 victory over University College Dublin in the Eamonn Deacy Stadium, Galway. Only University of Limerick – ...Read More
Students gear up for St Patrick's Day Parade
IT Sligo students will play a significant part in this year’s St Patrick’s Day Parade in Sligo. Students studying tourism and event management, marketing, web development and creative media, creative design and fine art are all contributing to the ...Read More
Staff take on eight-week Wellness Challenge
IT Sligo has launched an eight-week series of activities highlighting “wellness” as a vital extra dimension to the traditional image of “health and safety”. Yvonne Roache, the Institute’s Health and Safety Officer who is the prime mover in the ...Read More
Dragon’s Den Star for Student STEM Showcase
Star of RTE’s Dragon Den and owner of Cara Pharmacy, Ramona Nicholas, has been confirmed as the guest speaker at the Student STEM Showcase at IT Sligo during Enterprise & Innovation Week on Thursday, March 14th. From Co Tyrone, Ramona ...Read More
Guidance Counsellors to hold AGM in Sligo
The Institute of Guidance Counsellors will hold its AGM in Sligo this week from March 7 to 9. The main venue for the AGM will be the Radisson SAS Hotel and a series of workshops will also be held ...Read More
Student Entrepreneurship Scholarship Launch
The cultivation of an entrepreneurial mindset in students of all disciplines is the ambition of a new student Entrepreneurship Scholarship launched at IT Sligo this week. Joint funded by IT Sligo, Foroige’s Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and ACE (Accelerating ...Read More
Students – Have Your Say in National Student Survey
First year and final year undergraduates and students undertaking taught postgraduate programmes at IT Sligo are being encouraged to ‘have their say’ by participating in the new National Student Survey which was launched today (Monday, March 4th, 2013). The survey, ...Read More