Professor Lisa Looney:

The portfolio is changing. We also rolled out a multilingualism programme. We are up to seven languages available as optional modules. The students can pick Japanese to French. It can be ab initioor, if they have done it in leaving certificate, they can pick it up and try to maintain their level. Things such as that are happening across the university sector. However, there are challenges to that. No more than somebody leaving primary school not knowing what they want to do in their career, many 17-, 18- and 19-year-olds also do not know what they want to do with their life thereafter. While traditional degrees might be something they recognise, interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary degrees are even more vague in terms of where they might take you sometimes. That can be a challenge in recruiting students to degrees that are fully cross-disciplinary.