David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 97: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills, further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 23 June 2011, if he will provide details of the colleges that provide a second chance entrance examination for students wishing to study science and engineering and who have failed higher level mathematics; if he will provide details of the colleges which formerly offered such an option but have now ceased this practice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19198/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Academic matters including the admissions criteria for entry to higher education institutions are legally a matter for the institutions themselves. However, I have been informed that the following universities and Institutes of Technology operate a second chance examination aimed at students who do not fulfil the matriculation requirements in Mathematics through their Leaving Certificate results:- NUI Maynooth (for engineering courses) University of Limerick (for science and engineering courses) NUI Galway (for engineering courses) Cork Institute of Technology for engineering Dublin Institute of Technology for engineering.

I have also been informed that Waterford Institute of Technology has proposals to operate a second chance exam in 2011 for first time.

Higher education institutions have academic autonomy on matters of course provision and admission criteria.