Some of the biggest accounting firms have come together to help fund a new business school in Ireland. Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers have all contributed substantial corporate funding to the IR&
Some of the biggest accounting firms have come together to help fund a new business school in Ireland. Arthur Andersen, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers have all contributed substantial corporate funding to the IR£19m cost of the Quinn School of Business – part of the University College, Dublin, campus.
Lochlann Quinn, chairman of AIB and a UCD business graduate, who personally donated IR£4m of the total cost, laid the foundation stone on Monday (28 May 2001). He praised the proposed development saying "the innovative teaching technologies proposed for 2002 by the Faculty of Commerce, UCD, are a significant leap in preparing students for this reality". He also said that the economy of Ireland stood to benefit from the existence of the school.
The three-storey complex is due to be finished in June 2002 and features special e-technology and e-learning facilities including virtual experiential learning, student laptop ownership and lectures given online. Even the social areas are fully networked and connected to the internet. The Dean of UCD Business Schools, Professor Philip Bourke, commented that the new centre would "radically alter the way we educate our students and will enable Quinn School of Business… to become a world leader in educating e-business professionals". He added that the modern facilities would "enable students to search for, and find answers for themselves in this increasingly unpredictable and fast-paced world".
Eleonora Panto