Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

State Examinations Commission: Engagement with Chair-Designate.

1:00 pm

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I, Senator O'Donnell and our Vice Chairman, Deputy Jim Daly, went to Austria recently to look at the apprenticeship system there. In recent years, Austria, and countries with similar systems, introduced a state exam whereby a person who had taken the apprenticeship route could take the state exam and then move on to university or another third level institution. If we considered a similar system here, would the State Examinations Commission have the capacity to oversee such an initiative?

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