Open days focus on the appliance of science

THE University of Limerick is offering students from secondary schools around Munster a hands-on opportunity to prepare for their Leaving Cert science exams.

This week, the Department of Life Sciences at UL is opening up its state-of-the-art facilities for 400 students doing the laboratory practicals based on the Leaving Certificate biology curriculum.

Jacqueline Kennedy, chief technical officer of Life Sciences at UL, said: “Many biology Leaving Cert students throughout the country do not get the opportunity to actually carry out and practice all of the experiments included in their course work and a lot of secondary school laboratories simply don’t have the facilities to allow this.