Ex-Intel chair slams inadequate Irish education

THE recently retired chairman of technology giant Intel has predicted we will end up an economic backwater if we do not radically reform how we educate our workforce.

Craig Barrett, who stepped down in May 2009, said companies like Intel could thrive without ever hiring another Irish person and the Government had to justify investment.

He said he already warned the Government of this at last year’s economic forum at Farmleigh.