"An ambitious €15bn plan for transforming Ireland into a 'higher education nation' was outlined yesterday.
There are now 168,000 full-time college students in the system which represents 56pc of those who took their Leaving Certificate.
The latest target is to increase this to 72pc of Leaving Cert students by the end of the next decade, the chairman of the Higher Education Authority Michael Kelly confirmed".
Read the full story here.
One wonders what the saturation point for third-level take-up might be? Not everyone reaches the standard for third level and not everyone has the preference to attend third level.
We could assume that today's early childhood investment deals with the former caveat, indeed, the article linked above outlines a further vision for what will happen at the end of the next 20 years: "The plan will mean that most children starting infant classes in September will leave the education system in 17 or 18 years' time with a degree under their belts".
We could assume that today's early childhood investment deals with the former caveat, indeed, the article linked above outlines a further vision for what will happen at the end of the next 20 years: "The plan will mean that most children starting infant classes in September will leave the education system in 17 or 18 years' time with a degree under their belts".
2 comments:
Is it fair to say that much of this additional education will be technical education warmed up (e.g. nursing), in which case, are the universities the best ones to provide it? Should the numbers expansion be restricted to the ITs?
Is it fair to say that this additional education will be technical training warmed up (e.g. nursing), so the expansion should be limited to the ITs, or universities will have to learn completely new ways to teach?
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