Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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With regard to the issue of transparency in colleges, the HEA has statistics on its website about the number of people in college but it does not go into how many per year or how many per course and so on. One of the recommendations of the points commission is that colleges should publish the number of places they offer on each course. There is a significant lack of transparency about the number of places offered on particular courses and why. That affects the points for courses. Do the HEA and the Department have proposals to address that issue?

I used to work in the registrations office of the Dublin Institute of Technology at Bolton Street. The education of apprentices was a significant element of its remit. Is that part of the picture or is it separate from higher education? An apprentice in Bolton Street could move on to a diploma, degree or postgraduate qualification. Is that part of the vision?