Eoghan Murphy
Question:245. Deputy Eoghan Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the 2012 McKinsey Center for Government Report, Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works. [57936/12]
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The Report, "Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works" focuses on addressing global youth unemployment through skills development with a particular emphasis on the importance of developing connections between employers and education providers in order to ensure that students are learning the right skills for employment.
Strengthening links with industry as recommended in the report is a key element of the wide ranging programme of reform being implemented across the education and training system in Ireland. For example the new targeted funding models of skills development, Springboard, Momentum and ICT skills have strong employer involvement.
The Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) which is funded by my Department also brings together industry, academia and State agencies in identifying the future skills requirements of the economy and its research and reports inform the development of course curricula.