Dr. Maria Hinfelaar:

There are two parts to that question. First, there is the employability of our graduates. We do graduate destination surveys every year and they are broken down by institution, school, department and course; it is down to that granular level. That information is published on the websites of each of the institutes of technology. It is readily accessible information to ensure we can all see that the employability statistics are down to the individual programme level. That is available.

Regarding job creation through enterprise centres and applied research, we can measure that. It is not always possible to measure the immediate impact of those kinds of investments. I would be hesitant to create a one to one link between funding and output metrics like that. We must track those kind of metrics and over time it will become clearer which investments and financial incentives lead to results. We can then adjust within the system in terms of where we target the funding, which is limited.