Havok warns of lack of graduates as high numbers fail science and maths in Leaving

A representative of Havok, the Irish games middleware company, has been on RTE Radio One’s Liveline saying that Ireland is no longer turning out high numbers of the computer graduates that is needed. He was saying that while they would like to hire locally, they had to hire people in from abroad.

Havok’s spokesperson also highlighted that while their company may be seen as fun orientated because of computer games their job placements are mostly heavy on math.   

This comes as the same day of the Leaving Cert results with high failure numbers in science and maths, and with 4,000 students failing ordinary level mathematics. Mary Hanafin, the Minister for Education, asked students who did well in the subjects to look at doing relevant third-level courses.