EDUCATION II

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The project comprises: (1) construction and equipping of (a) 14 new comprehensive secondary schools providing 9,660 student places in new urban growth centers and to replace 27 small and obsolete schools in mostly rural areas, and (b) five new industrial training centers providing 1,650 new places in lieu of the 620 places existing in four inadequately housed centers; (2) expansion of the facilities of seven existing regional technical colleges through adding 4,650 new places to reach a total of 7,280 places; (3) provision of the central campus core of the main academic and communal facilities and equipment for the National Institute of Higher Education (NIHE); (4) providing computer equipment at NIHE and the complementary systems needed to service the other third level technical institutes included in the project; (5) provision of a new teacher training institute on the NIHE campus and expansion of its facilities to 710 places, replacing 200 places in five uneconomically small institutes located throughout the country; (6) transfer of the Faculty of Agriculture from inadequate existing facilities at the Lyons experimental station to the main campus of University College, Dublin providing 550 places on the campus, where new classrooms, laboratories, and equipment will be.