Nation’s future

GIVEN the pleas of the IEI, the head of the IDA, IBEC, et al for a continued supply of “well educated school leavers”, may I implore of our Government a few actions?

Scrap the discredited benchmarking report and pay teachers and lecturers well, grant them favourable conditions of work and fund schools and colleges properly.

By these measures, the Government may begin again to attract the highest calibre of graduates in the land to enter jobs in the education sector.

It is only by such radical action of actually paying for education that the government can hope to sustain our knowledge-based economy into the future. If the government decides against doing these things, we will not continue to attract foreign investment and our economy will dive into recession.

Tim Nelligan,

122 Rose Hill,

Wicklow.