Mr. Frank Jones:

On the issue of taster and tester subjects, it ties in well with resources. I know from personal experience of first year engineering in the University of Limerick that there were several hundred of us in first year maths. For those of us who struggled with maths it was not the way to do it. It is about the resources. The idea of having tasters is to create an interest in the subject or see if there is an interest in the subject. It is not to turn somebody completely off the subject. It needs to be handled right and resourced. A lot of the issues we raise come back to resourcing.