Don’t blame graduates for flawed university courses

IT IS both audacious and incorrect for the IDA and the HEA to say that “more jobs would be filled if more graduates had the right skills”.

There are plenty of university courses in IT skills, and many under-graduate students have the ability to learn these skills for practical application.

The problem is universities themselves. So many of their courses are not well taught.

Graduates suffer for this by ending up unemployed while highly-paid lecturers continue to dish out badly taught and out-dated material.

Graduates also suffer unemployment because there are just not enough skilled jobs, even for properly taught graduates.

“More jobs would be created if more graduates had the right skills” should be rephrased as “more jobs would be filled if under graduates were better taught when at university”.

Graduates must not be blamed for flaws in their university courses.

Florence Craven

Maynooth

Co Kildare