Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION Minster Simon Harris has questioned if the Leaving Certificate points race is “the right way to go”.
The minister said: “My job is to say, can we come up with a much better system, where the 17 year old in the school isn’t just having this narrow conversation where they’re told ‘which university do you want to go to?’ Harris said the race for college places had created “skills shortages in key areas of the economy and the society”.
“If we don’t start now, today, talking in this country and getting rid of this academic snobbery that we have, this cultural attitude that we have towards third level… “I also do think, and I say this consistently, that the time is now opportune as well for a greater and a bigger look at Senior Cycle,” she said.It comes as this year’s Leaving Cert saw record high grades, with CAO points shooting up amid unprecedented demand for college places.
“There has never been a year before in the history of our state where more people have got offered a place in college than there is this year,” he said.
Everyone wants to do medicine based on the CAO points yet we have a shortage of doctors too.
Is he actually going to answer any of the questions he's proposing, his job
Yes, pls do take advantage of the backgrounds of students. And interest is very important in learning. Minister SimonHarrisTD, our Chinese heritage learners are being discriminated in ireland and their heritage being belittled instead of being taking as an advantage. Pls fix it
Simon who?
How would he know?
Nothing in this fucking country is the international norm thanks to him and his buddies.
What is he qualified as again?