Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

National Strategy and Framework for Higher Education: Higher Education Authority

1:00 pm

Senator Marie Louise O'Donnell:

We have had NGOs and other groups in here, even from the Traveller community, to speak to us. Their biggest ambition was to go to university. They are taught a system of education in which there is only one way towards it. There are no other trajectories which are just as qualitative vis-à-vislearning and functions within the economy.