Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Skills and Apprenticeship Landscape in Ireland: Institute of Physics

Ms Fiona Longmuir:

Absolutely. Some are being developed that feel really promising. I think an apprenticeship is being developed in cybersecurity, which we are delighted to hear. That will be a real growing industry. There are many practical areas of physics for things like semiconductor manufacture, quantum technologies, financial technology and so on. There are real hands-on elements of that. It would be really beneficial to do that kind of academic learning alongside that on-the-job training. There are many sectors in which it would be great to see apprenticeships being developed.