Dáil debates
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions
Student Accommodation
11:45 pm
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Is the Minister's advice to students who are on campus at the moment to stay on campus within the bubbles they are working in?
I want to put it on record that I am deeply concerned about the quality of the education experience that students are undergoing at the moment. I do not want us to run into a situation months down the line where we find there are huge dropout rates. That will have a significant mental and physical health impact on students. We need to take a grip of it now and acknowledge that there is a problem there. We know the problems there are with online learning as it is but we know from research we have done that the education experience students are having right now is deeply worrying. We need to face up to it, deal with it and support those students collectively in that.
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