{"id":698,"date":"2025-06-10T18:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/?page_id=698"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:58:46","slug":"increasing-access-to-level-8-engineering-in-ireland-what-level-of-mathematical-competency-do-they-need","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/increasing-access-to-level-8-engineering-in-ireland-what-level-of-mathematical-competency-do-they-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing access to level 8 engineering in Ireland, what level of mathematical competency do they need"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Michael Carr<br><\/em>Michael.carr@tudublin.ie<br>TU Dublin, Ireland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Direct entry onto most level 8 engineering degrees in Ireland is restricted to students with a H4 (60-70) or higher in their final secondary school exam. We will discuss the evolution of this requirement and how it is based on a number of historical accidents dating back to 1969, rather than evidence based. In this paper we look at the data of students who have entered level 8 engineering in TU Dublin, and argue that TU Dublin (and other Universities) could use an evidence based to open up entry to a larger pool of students. This could increase the pool of available students for level 8 engineering. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael CarrMichael.carr@tudublin.ieTU Dublin, Ireland Abstract Direct entry onto most level 8 engineering degrees in Ireland is restricted to students with a H4 (60-70) or higher in their final secondary school exam. We will discuss the evolution of this requirement and how it is based on a number of historical accidents dating back to 1969, rather &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/increasing-access-to-level-8-engineering-in-ireland-what-level-of-mathematical-competency-do-they-need\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eIncreasing access to level 8 engineering in Ireland, what level of mathematical competency do they need\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-698","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PfFxp7-bg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/698\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sonia.de\/sefi25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}