Anthony Lawlor (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted to hear that, because we need to expand the number of apprenticeship-type roles that we have. Over the years, third-level education institutions, particularly colleges and universities, have been very inflexible with regard to the requirements of the workforce. How does the witness find that? Are colleges becoming much more flexible and adaptable to what is required of a student emerging from college life in order to make him or her employable, as opposed to the course being the most important element? The end product should be a job for the student.