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:
There has been a fair amount of research on the different approaches to inclusion and to increasing representation within education and certain subjects. There is no single clear answer but the research that we have seen and undertaken ourselves builds the foundation for the limitless campaign that I talked about earlier. That is where we get the whole school approach from because that has been shown to work and to be much more effective than piecemeal interventions in certain subjects or with certain groups. One wants the whole school to be a safe, welcoming, empowering and inclusive environment that teaches students that they can pursue any path open to them. That comes through very strongly in our research.