Fergal Browne (Fine Gael)

My point was that 99% of graduates with a B.Ed. go into teaching, because unfortunately, the B.Ed. degree is not useful for getting jobs in areas outside of education. That is the specific point I made. I genuinely do not know of anyone who left college with a B.Ed. who entered a different area of work without having to do some other course. My point is that a B.Ed. degree is specific. It allows a person to get a job in the teaching profession and curtails the person from joining other areas. Many teachers who wanted to leave teaching found afterwards that the B.Ed. degree was not worth much to them outside of the teaching profession.