Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Maeve O'ConnellMaeve O'Connell (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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I have a follow-up question to that. There is an awful lot of part-time students, evening students and students like that on campus. They always complain that they do not feel part of the institution and do not feel as welcomed. I was a lecturer and I used to hear all of this. Is it a particular issue with apprenticeships or is this a failure of all the third level institutions in dealing with these non-full-time undergraduate students?