“Minister for Education and Science Batt O’Keeffe has expressed renewed concern about the large number of university students dropping out of science and technology courses. ‘We are trying to bring in a far more practical aspect to the sciences and technology’, he said, adding that innovations were already under way in the maths curriculum …” (more)
[Kitty Holland, Irish Times, 11 August]
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