How Ireland Provides a Unique Educational Environment

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Tuesday — March 14, 2017

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Ireland has always supported the idea of education for everyone and tried to deliver the best of it. It has always been one of the places to work hard to spread quality education to everyone and welcomed international students who come there for education. Ireland has never disappointed the understudies who the global level of quality in education here.

Unfortunately, not much know a lot about Ireland, especially in Asian region.

As Study Abroad team always delivers the best of the news and events to guide students about all their possible choices in studying abroad and ways to fulfill them, today I will tell you about Ireland that how Ireland provides a unique educational environment and why you should study in Ireland. Ireland is actually an Island in North Atlantic Sea near Britain. With a population just about 65 lac, Ireland is the twentieth biggest Island on Earth. Here you see all the main points and details about what makes Irish educational environment worth studying and unique.

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English Speaking Country:

Though Ireland has languages of its own and unique cultural style, English is the general spoken language. As a matter of fact, Ireland is the only country that speaks English in whole Eurozone. Three languages used in Ireland are: English, Irish, and Ulster Scots. As you must know the global trend that English is an international language and need of everyone who wish to live their not limiting in just their country. English has become a language of business and without business I don’t think world would survive with current system. This is one of the reasons that Ireland attracts many big international organizations and personals to their country.

Dublin is the capital city of Ireland and according to UNESCO it is the City of Literature. Although it is just a small country still its writers have made surprising impact on English literature. English is a must for every student who wishes learn even if he never leaves his or her country. Since Ireland will deliver whole lectures and works using English language as medium, students will have no problem understanding them as their will be misunderstanding because of accent issues.

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Safe Pleasant Environment:

Ireland provides a very secure and happy environment to all foreigners. You will see such things racism there. Most people in Ireland are very friendly and they will never give you a chance to complain. It is not just in words but it is actually true as proof I can tell you that in 2010, Ireland was named the friendliest country in the world. Again in 2014, Global Peace Index ranked Ireland the 13th most peaceful place on Earth. It is also in the Top Ten of the OECD in its Better Life Index. According to a survey, Irish people are also generally more satisfied with lifestyle and have more positive living experience. It is said to have in their maternal side to welcome guests in most warming manner.

Academic Achievements:

Ireland is currently ranked 25^th best higher education system in world by QS HESS ranking. But, in fact, Ireland performance is way higher and better. It is home to some of world class universities and their government works hard for the development in the field of education. Ireland offers a huge range of over 5000 programs that are according to global recognition and fulfill all international requirements. All of Ireland’s universities are ranked in the top 5% globally.

Irish qualifications are quality assured by Irish State Agency. Ireland’s higher education system is considerably in the top twenty worldwide. It offers hundreds of scholarships annually in order to attract as many students as possible and help those who are financially unable to afford their educational expenses. Irish government, as said earlier, really supports education in their country and for that purpose their investment in knowledge and higher education increased by an average annual rate of 10% in the past decade where on the other hand European countries’ average rate of increment is only 3%.

Ireland has one of the highest educational participation rates in the world in the field of education at 65%. In addition, Ireland is ranked 14th in the Global Scientific Ranking; ranked 7th in the 2016 Global Innovation Index; ranked 2nd for Chemistry; ranked 2nd for Nanotechnology; ranked 3rd for Animal and Dairy; ranked 3rd for Agricultural Sciences; ranked 4th for Mathematics. Top ranked university of Ireland is University College Dublin that is ranked 176^th of 2017 by QS ranking. Second top ranked Irish university is National University of Ireland that is ranked 249^th in same QS ranking.

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Innovation Not Memorization:

Irish education, unlike most other countries, is not dependent on that old teaching method of memorization. Usually students are put to rote all the syllabus of discoveries and inventions but they are not given the mindset of creativity and innovation. Teachers will teach you an algorithm but the real purpose of education is to make you able of inventing better algorithm. Ireland emphasizes on this part of teaching and it has produced many inventors in history.

Things you daily use that have made your life easy and many important technologies of today were invented in Ireland; For example: The submarine, color photography, modern tractor, guided missile, nickel-zinc battery, portable defibrillator, Gregg system of shorthand speed writing, modern stethoscope, rubber shoe soles, a treatment for leprosy, soda water, chocolate milk and the aircraft ejector seat are inventions of Irish people.

Father of Chemistry, Robert Boyle, is Irish. Inventor of hypodermic syringe, Francis Rynd, is also Irish. First steam turbine of the world was also developed by an Irish named Charles Parsons. First person to artificially split the atom is an Irish known as Ernest Walton who worked with John Cockcroft. Other than these, Ireland has proved their metal in many other fields like Music, Business and Writing.