The rise in student interest in the sciences and mathematics has been widely welcomed by companies and science groups following the results of Ireland’s school-leavers’ examinations.
More than 55,000 students sat national Leaving Certificate examinations in Ireland June and the results were published on 17 August.
The Central Applications Office made its initial third-level course offers on 22 August and the first round of offers closed on 29 August. The offers continued to show growing interest in STEM subjects with a particularly sharp rise in students seeking architecture, engineering and business courses. These are all areas where the economy has shown signs of recovery.
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