Education system ‘putting success at risk’

IRELAND’S future success is entirely dependent on an educational system that is not up to scratch, the chairman of BP and former head of the World Trade Organisation Peter Sutherland warned last night.

Mr Sutherland, who recently made a €4 million gift towards a new law school at University College Dublin, said our schools and colleges need to be benchmarked against Europe’s best.

“We don’t have the educational system that we think we have. I don’t think we are top of class on any level. At the end of the day our competitiveness is entirely dependent on our education system,” he said.