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NET RESULTS:ALONG WITH noting its serious implications, the Higher Education Authority got a bit of a laugh last week when it released a new survey on the challenges to getting more secondary students into technology careers, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON

The HEA’s press release quoted Pat O’Connor, head of computing skills at the HEA: “Comic Book Guy (from The Simpsons) does not represent the typical student or worker in computing and technology in Ireland but it is the stereotype that most students imagine when asked about the sort of people who are employed in the sector.”