Brendan Keenan: Quality is key to education [Independent.ie]
- Published: 07 March 2010
I do not wish to sound either old or clever, although there is no doubt that I qualify on at least one count. But the fact is that when I attended Queen's University, Belfast, it had 5,000 students, and today it has more than 25,000.
These raw numbers might suggest that I would be among the cleverest 20 per cent of today's student population. I very much doubt it. My recollection is that it was relatively easy to get into college back then. I even qualified for medical school, before common sense prevailed on both sides. I do not believe I could get the necessary points now -- not even if I were 18 again.
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