A plan for a new "associate professional" model of education – based on the traditional apprenticeship system similar to one that operated successfully in Germany – has been proposed by Fast-track to IT (FIT).
FIT, which last week unveiled Ireland's first ever Skills Audit Report showing that 4,500 ICT jobs were unfilled, has warned that students were leaving universities without practical skills.
The Dail Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation heard from FIT chief Peter Davitt yesterday, who said that the "associate professional" model they are proposing has the full support of key employers within the sector. With government backing, he claimed a pilot could be up and running by the end of this year.
"We are confident that we can process 3,000 people into jobs within three years," he said.
Mr Davitt said Ireland has relied too much on third-level colleges as a route into ICT when many of the jobs currently available in the ICT sector are at an entry and intermediate level. And he said that not all candidates were suitable for third level.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Mark Keenan
Quelle/Source: Irish Independent, 29.05.2013
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