Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Helen McMahon:

What we found on the ground when that was put in place - Ms McGee was part of it also - is that usually within a school system, it is a career guidance person, who is usually a teacher, maybe doubling-up in a career guidance role, who in some cases was caught up in various key areas such as dealing with social media and bullying, and not enterprise engagement. What we are finding with the universities is that they are much more fleshed out enterprise-engagement systems but they double over in some cases between career guidance and enterprise liaison.