asked the Minister for Education whether steps have now been taken to ensure that in future university authorities will give four years' notice to secondary school authorities of intention to eliminate certain subjects from matriculation, so that pupils will not in future waste time on subjects which will not qualify them for entrance to university.
Written Answers. - Matriculation Subjects.
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It is implied in the Deputy's question that all study in post-primary schools should be directed towards university entrance. I cannot accept that there is any basis for this. I can, however, give an assurance to the Deputy that my Department are in consultation with the universities with the object of securing the widest possible acceptance of leaving certificate examination successes for purposes of matriculation. The question of notice to schools has arisen in that context and an interim arrangement in relation to business studies subjects has been announced recently by the National University for the year 1971. This announcement altered the previous decision of the university whereby no subject of the business studies group would have been accepted for matriculation purposes.