Is is time to cap the number of places in higher education?
Ireland needs a comprehensive, well co-ordinated and resourced tertiary education system if we are to provide for the wide range of skills that our society and economy needs. The key to achieving this lies in creating a better balance between further education and training (FET) and higher education (HE) – an outcome that may require radical action.
No course of action is free of cost, risk or controversy. However, present policies will only bring about the re-balancing needed after a prolonged period, if at all. Radical solutions are required, say Ellen Hazelkorn and Tom Boland. See Irish Times, https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/is-is-time-to-cap-the-number-of-places-in-higher-education-1.4860652