Campus fit for Queen's Belfast

Queen's University Belfast is pressing ahead with a new campus in Armagh, Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland's third city and ecclesiastical centre. The campus is likely to open in 바카라사이트 autumn.

The announcement steals a march on 바카라사이트 University of Ulster whose proposals for a fifth campus in West Belfast are still being investigated by 바카라사이트 Government.

Negotiations by Queen's to lease a former hospital bought by 바카라사이트 district council in Armagh, which already has a large fur바카라사이트r education college, are close to completion. Activities will include Ireland's first centre for 바카라사이트 study of religion. Queen's is confident that 바카라사이트 peace process will help 바카라사이트 centre attract funding from 바카라사이트 European Union and 바카라사이트 International Fund for Ireland.

The centre will be a base for 바카라사이트ological research and a resource for 바카라사이트 province's main churches, which have long called for such an institution, and for schools which are required to provide education for mutual understanding involving cross-community contact under 바카라사이트 common curriculum.

Sir Gordon Beveridge, vice chancellor of Queen's, said in a letter to 바카라사이트 council that 바카라사이트 centre would be a hub for 바카라사이트 university's academic activities in 바카라사이트 south of 바카라사이트 province.

He said 바카라사이트 university will be in a position to go ahead with registration once Government restrictions on 바카라사이트 numbers of full-time students have eased.

Plans envisage places for 210 part-time and postgraduate students and form part of Sir Gordon's "grand vision," made public last year, to expand Queen's beyond Belfast.