NUI Galway has announced an exciting initiative with the Ericsson R&D centre in Athlone. The discipline of information technology offers a one-year higher diploma and a two-year master’s in software design and development to graduates from diverse disciplines. In conjunction with these programmes, Ericsson will offer a number of scholarships to second year MSc students. The scholarships will comprise a contribution towards fees plus a paid internship during which students will work on a supervised research or development activity at the Ericsson R&D centre in Athlone.
A unique initiative within IT at NUI Galway, this will be of particular relevance to current or recent graduates from any discipline interested in pursuing a fourth level qualification in software with well defined career prospects.
Dr Hugh Melvin, of the discipline of information technology at NUI Galway, commented: “Both these conversion courses offer students from diverse disciplines career opportunities in the broad, vibrant and evolving software sector. We are delighted with this Ericsson sponsorship and it shows how industry and academia can work together to meet current and future skills requirements. We are in discussions with other industry partners and hope to make further such announcements.”
For further details regarding this announcement or the above postgraduate courses in IT at NUI Galway, contact Dr Hugh Melvin ([email protected] ) or Dr Michael Schukat ([email protected] ).
