The Ballyfermot Blogger

Ireland is suffering an IC3 drought, and clear and inconspicuous slowdown for newly qualified staff for “companies that rely on students coming out of engineering and computer courses” and what is the prime mitigating factor? Maths.
“We are asleep when it comes to math” states Shane Dempsey, director of the Irish Software Association “Maths is the language of the knowledge economy” and lets face it, it is the only universally accepted cultural language. He continues with the following jaw dropper “Only two out of every 10 teachers teaching honours maths are actually qualified to do so” 20 percent are qualified only, in our Secondary school system! Okay, time out.

Lets assume that these quoted figures from our esteemed and learned friend are corrected, and “one tenth of Leaving Cert students failed maths and that out of 8,500 candidates some 4.5pc failed the honours paper, compared to 3.8pc last year” which would suggest that the Teaching falloff is a more recent event, but this is an exam that is a mandatory requirement for every high level course, and the stand-ins as it were “only have to do a module as part of one year at teacher training college to be qualified to teach honours maths” beggars beyond belief

This is an educational disaster, parents speak out as your educational unsupported children are not able to achieve their potential in this absolute and utter mess. Students please add comments to the article.

Girls and Boys of the Secondary School Year 2008-2009 I’m very sorry to say that its up to you to qualify as you gotta do the Math
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