Ireland earned the nickname of the Celtic Tiger for its digital prowess during the 1990s IT boom. Subsequently bursting economic bubbles left the country looking for new opportunities.
Many Irish still look to the multinational IT powerhouses that continue to be a dominating presence in Ireland, like Microsoft, Intel and Hewlett-Packard, for answers. But Tom Collins, the newly appointed President of the National University of Ireland at Maynooth (NUIM), has been thinking about how his nation can be its own powerhouse.
“Our economic policy has been to make Ireland an attractive location for transnational enterprise,” Collins said. It did so, in part, he said, by creating a workforce educated in “a system that needed to produce passive workers” instead of an educational system that “requires a very different kind of graduate who is self-driven and self-directed.”
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