Construction Seeding Our R&D Future?

If maths and science Leaving Cert grades are falling, but points for courses centering on them are rising because of the implosion of property prices, does that mean the high-achievers that could have opted to do architecture, law or business will be good technologists? In essence, could the construction bust seed a strong R&D future in science and technology?

August 17th, 2009 at 9:21 pm • Filed in Brainstrobing, Culture



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One Comment to “Construction Seeding Our R&D Future?”

  1. UberAlex Says:
    August 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    I don’t know that all that many people end up in R&D from degrees in Maths or Sciences as a proportion of those groups.
    Obviously there are more Chemists in R&D than Lawyers, but it’s not a particularly well-trodden path.

    There is some private research and a declining amount of public funded research in Ireland. Since basic research is getting a fairly heavy beating right now, it’s hard to see those programs expanding to take on those scientific grads.

    They are more likely to end up working in non-R&D science jobs.

    I also think that it’s likely that many people will use the degree for its educational status as a general qualification rather than for its specific subject for postgraduate research.



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