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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

...across the system as it currently is. As a starting point, I reiterate that our view is that STEM education incorporates the study of the individual disciplines of STEM while also promoting an applied, problem-solving orientation to learning across and between these disciplines, in other words, integrated STEM. To achieve this, it is critical that all our students have access to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

...hands and decided to go down that route. After doing the junior certificate examination, I knew I would struggle doing the leaving certificate examination. I heard about the leaving certificate applied, LCA, through a friend. He had done it in another school. It is much more hands-on. The school I was in did not allow me to do art, metalwork, woodwork and computers at the same time,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...find themselves at a place in their lives where they have fulfilling careers. This relates to what Mr. Scattergood said about options at secondary level in terms of subject availability or the leaving certificate applied versus the traditional leaving certificate. Mr. Scattergood said he came from an academic school. Mr. Bermingham did not mention what his school was like. What was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mr. Martin Scattergood: I did the leaving certificate applied, LCA, which includes four weeks of job placements. I did two weeks in an office and two in a garage. After the two weeks in the office, I knew for sure I was going to work with my hands. When I was in school, nothing was said about apprenticeships or about working with your hands, including being a brickie or electrician. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

...going on work experience and seeing that the skill sets they have get them so far but not all the way. Moving forward, we could have a multitude approach whereby people learn some skills and then apply them. It is when that happens that people learn how little they know and can learn more. Practical as well as theoretical applications can create a strong framework.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

Mr. Shane O'Connor: People are applying skills they are learning. This was our second year competing in the competition and it was great to meet people who have similar interests to us and compete against them. The buzz of the whole competition was great. What we have learned since has been even more valuable. Opportunities like today are something we have not had before now and we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: The Future of STEM in Irish Education: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2023)

...2020. Then we entered the competition in January 2021. We were coming to the end of our third year and we had the option of going into TY, straight into fifth year or into the leaving certificate applied. We wondered, when we looked at our year group, what are the factors that impact our peers and our own decisions at this stage and what is the true impact school has on us as students...