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Sat 03 Mar 2010How Ireland dumbed down
Even as educational standards appeared to be improving, employers were complaining that they couldn’t find high-calibre graduates. SEAN FLYNN, Education Editor, examines the unregulated system that has allowed ever-weaker students to gain ever-higher grades
GOOGLE’S SHINY NEW European headquarters on Dublin’s Barrow Street is precisely the kind of place the Government has in mind when it rolls out those familiar cliches about the smart economy. Google employs more than 1,500 people at the facility. Most are young and multi-lingual, and virtually all are graduates, many from Google’s universities of choice: University College Dublin, Trinity and University College Cork.
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