{"id":6508,"date":"2022-11-14T13:10:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nivettoday.com\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:10:28","slug":"republic-could-get-second-vet-school-before-ni-gets-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nivettoday.com\/republic-could-get-second-vet-school-before-ni-gets-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Republic could get second vet school before NI gets first"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Republic’s government has moved a step closer to building a <\/span>second veterinary school, a move that could see the proposed facility overtake the much delayed<\/span> plans for a first such school in Northern Ireland.<\/span><\/p>\n

Educational institutions that want to expand or create new veterinary medicine courses in the Republic could do so by the 2024-25 or 2025-26 academic years, complementing the long-established <\/span>veterinary degree course established in 1946 at University College Dublin.<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span><\/span>Ensuring a supply of qualified vets to meet the demands of the sector is a priority for my department,” Ireland’s higher education minister, Simon Harris, said last month as he invited expressions of interest with deadline for submissions passing on November 18.<\/span><\/p>\n

A group of veterinary practitioners, the Veterinary Work Group, last month called for a second school in Munster, where students will be provided better education on farm animals.<\/p>\n

At present a number of\u00a0 veterinary students from the North and South study away from home as there are not enough places available on the course in UCD.<\/p>\n

At present there are 260 students from the Republic in Poland, with others in Hungary and Slovakia.<\/p>\n

Veterinary Working Group representative James Quinn said: \u201cWe are hoping that a new school with different methods of student selection and a different method of education, more similar to the new colleges in the UK, will produce graduates that will be more likely to take up farm-animal practice jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all aware of how hard it is to find people to work in large-animal practice, [so] we decided something needed to be done [as] the existing education system is failing to produce the number of graduates that are needed every year,\u201d<\/p>\n

In March last year year\u00a0 it was announced that case for building a first veterinary school in NI was being looked at, yet almost 20 months later the results of that study have yet to be made public.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is understood the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs\u00a0 is still is in discussions with Queen’s University and Ulster University over the proposed school.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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