The Decision
[…]at €2,250. Both his parents are working, his mother has three jobs, and yet they still can’t gather the €5,000 necessary to send both Patrick and his sister to college this September. His argument is simple and it’s one that USI has echoed over the years: If the Government makes third level education financially prohibitive to Leaving Cert students then less of them will go to college and Ireland’s workforce will become unskilled, uneducated and uncompetitive. Unemployment will increase and Ireland will, as a society, regress. Essentially, cutting investment in education and making it more difficult to attain a third […]