I need help encouraging my son to pursue his education. He has started a bachelor's program at least twice now and has taken a variety of classes, but he has never completed a program. For some time, I let go of my own desires for him and tried to make peace with the idea that maybe school just isn't for him, but the way the job market is looking these days, it's less about my personal wishes and feels a lot more like a necessity.
Now that the Leaving Cert results are out, attention turns to college and career, but what road should you take when the map is being redrawn by AI? The Leaving Cert results are out and college offers are around the corner. Yet for Ireland's class of 2025, a larger question overshadows the scramble for places: will three or four years of lectures and tens of thousands of euro really equip students for a labour market in which artificial intelligence is advancing at breakneck speed?