Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

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

Dr. Vivienne Patterson:

Upskilling is key. If you have somebody with a base in ICT, upskilling them in specific areas of cybersecurity gives you somebody more quickly than starting from scratch from a degree. All elements of all computer science courses within higher education and further education institutions would have cybersecurity built into them. It is not necessarily always a stand-alone course. The lifelong learning element is important.