Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Future of Higher Education: Discussion

1:00 pm

Photo of Ciarán CannonCiarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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There are two distinct markets emerging. First, there is a Department-credited group of institutions which does much work with Malaysia, and the Governments of the two countries collaborate. Every entity Malaysia invests in here in the context of educating its young people is the subject of serious scrutiny and there is a very robust accreditation process. That is the way it should be. However, there is another market which is not regulated at all. That is the challenge and it was in the context of this market that the young people in question were so badly affected.