Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group

1:00 pm

Mr. Peter Cassells:

I will deal with apprenticeships and, to use Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell's phrase, whether we are allowed to stray into that area. No, we are a funding group but the way in which we have raised the issue, highlighted it in the consultation paper and will highlight it in the final report is that we have pulled together all the demographic information we can find. This shows with the current participation rates in universities and IoTs there would be a 30% increase in the next 15 years. We think that would be a significant funding requirement, but we should not put it down to the funding requirements for those two sectors as we need to look at the other outlets for people-----

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