Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
Quality of Teaching in Higher Education: Discussion
2:50 pm
Dr. Greg Foley:
-----is that it takes the pressure off them at leaving certificate. My fear is that in doing so, we will expose them to a dog-eat-dog culture in first year. For example, in Dublin City University we have eight science programmes. If we were to move to a big bang approach and provide for generic entry into science, there would be an absolute dogfight among students to get into biotechnology or genetics courses.
PJ Coleman
Posted on 23 Jan 2016 9:23 am (Report this comment)
So instead at the moment you have people who are stuck into courses they don't want and who have been selected on their ability to quote Shakespeare rather than their ability in Chemistry.