FG wants shared college laboratories and free laptops for students

SUMMER access to college science facilities and lab technicians shared between schools are among Fine Gael’s proposals to encourage more young people to study science subjects.

The party’s education spokesperson Brian Hayes also outlined a policy to give every second level student a laptop computer to increase education in technology.

He said greater efforts must be made to reverse the drop in numbers of students taking higher level Leaving Certificate maths, and to improve the low participation in physics and chemistry.