The School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), in association with the Business Studies Teachers Association of Ireland (BSTAI), hosted a special awards evening on 8th October for all secondary school students in the South East Region who achieved an ‘A’ grade in this year’s Junior Certificate Higher Level Business Studies.

The ceremony, now in its ninth year, took place at the Main Campus of WIT, where the following students Meadbh Broderick, Ellen Dempsey and Anna Fennell from Presentation College attended on the night with their Business Studies teacher, Ms. Vanessa Byrne. The students were presented with a certificate of achievement and a plaque for the school by WIT’s Registrar, Dr. Derek O’Byrne.

Over three hundred students from fifty schools in the region (Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, Carlow and South Tipperary) attended the awards ceremony with their parents, Business Studies teachers and school principals.  The National President of BSTAI, Ms Jenny Harrington, spoke of the importance of studying business subjects for the Leaving Certificate examinations. 

Dr. Thomas O’Toole, Head of the School of Business at WIT, said that “the evening was an opportunity for parents, teachers and principals to celebrate the success of their students. This ceremony recognises students’ excellence, and the quality of Business teaching in their schools.”