Educator calls for end to points system

A UNIVERSITY president has called for the points system used to select college entrants to be scrapped.

Dublin City University president Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski made the comments in the context of what he described as the need to move from a professional to an enterprise culture.

“It is now widely understood that Ireland needs to be a knowledge society and have an innovation culture to succeed in a globalised world. But do we really understand what that means?” he asked.