Maynooth on course for big changes

The chance to study subjects from different disciplines, and as few as 20 course choices for Leaving Certificate students, are among reforms planned by a rebranded Maynooth University.

From Monday, the Kildare college will change its public identity, while keeping its legal name of National University of Ireland Maynooth.

The changes in curriculum are aimed at first-year students, recognising that students are better off making choices in stages, but university president Philip Nolan said “more so, it is about the fact that many of the jobs and many of the problems of the future are going to require inter-disciplinary skills”.