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.