Institute of Technology, Carlow
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Institute of Technology, Carlow (ITC), originally Regional Technical College, Carlow, is one of the original Regional Technical Colleges, it is located to the south of Carlow, Ireland on Kilkenny Road, it was the first such college located and announced.
The institution was renamed Austin Waldron Regional Technical College (AWRTC) in 1989 after a past CEO of County Carlow Vocational Education Committee, Austin Waldron, who was instrumental in helping the cause of the Regional Technical College in Carlow; it continued to use this name unofficially after 1992 when it reverted to its original name and in 1998 the institute accepted its current name.
There are approximately 3,000 students whose courses focus primarily on science, technology and business, these three disciplines are reflected in the colleges seal. At the turn of the millennium the institution completed the £ 11.5 millon (Punt) Learning Resource Centre and Catering Services which won the first prize of the Irish Concrete Society in 2000.
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IT carlow is most famous for its engineering subjects of which avionics,the only one of two places in ireland to do it, and national renoned for its civil engineering.External links
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