Apprenticeships

Some students more suited to apprenticeships

Some students who enter third-level may be more suited to alternatives such as apprenticeships, according to Minister of State for Higher Education Mary Mitchell O’Connor.

She said: “We must always remember there is more than one way of learning, and some students may be more suited to apprenticeships or to starting their third-level journey in an institute of further education.”

She was speaking at the launch of Education Matters: Ireland’s Yearbook of Education, edited by Irish Times careers analyst Brian Mooney. The book, published by Phyllis Mitchell, is being made free to access online (www.educationmatters.ie) for the first time.