Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion
Mr. Jim Miley:
They spend a great deal more on their systems. Looking at comparable smaller countries and the proportion of their GDP they spend on third level education, in the best examples it is two and a half times better than Ireland. One can go to places like Finland, Norway, Denmark and so on. Smaller emerging countries like Estonia are doing better than us in this regard.