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SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE AND BUSINESS courses have proved popular among CAO applicants this year, while arts and teaching degrees have seen a decrease in applications.
Figures released by the Central Applications Office today show the number of first preference applications for science degrees has risen by almost 4 per cent this year.
Agriculture and horticulture courses rose by 6.6 per cent while business and administration courses increased by just over 4 per cent.
Other courses which saw slight increases included physiotherapy (up 1.09 per cent) and nursing (up 0.5 per cent).
At the same time, teaching saw the single biggest drop in numbers with a decrease of more than 8 per cent on last year’s first preference applications. Arts and social science courses fell by 4.5 per cent while law, medicine, pharmacy and dentistry all saw drops of between 2.7 per cent and 6.4 per cent.
Arts and social science courses remain the most popular overall with almost 15,000 applicants including one as their first preference for a degree course this year.
The second most popular choice was business and administration courses with just over 9,000 first preferences, followed by science (8,468) and nursing (5,807).
As well as a change in the types of courses students are choosing, there has also been a drop in the overall number of applicants to the CAO. Level 8 (honour degree) applicants fell by 1.7 per cent this year, while level 7/6 (ordinary degrees and higher certificates) saw a bigger fall from 40,000 applicants to 37,400 – a decrease of 6.8 per cent.
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Fair play to them. I hope they make a few quid.
This is the reason I’ll get no work done today. Very cool site!
If I had credit on my iTunes account I’d be spending it on this. But because I don’t, I’ll just have to wait for pay day :/ ugh
What a brilliant idea…simple like all the best ones !
That sounds wonderful.
They have a job vacancy up on silicone republic for a wizard,clever guys
No link in the article to the app, likewise on their site & can’t find it in the play store… great idea, but please make it easier to download. I’m still at a loss.
story map is €2:69 in the app story still worth buying
Like I said… there’s no links to the app and I can’t find it in the Android Play Store…
I found it! Storymap is all one word.
Up now – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.storymap.AndroidStoryMap – Hope you enjoy
Thanks
I can’t find it in the Google Play Store either :(
Oh, sorry, we’ve a slight hitch on the android version which is being ironed out. It will be available by the end of the week. Apologies, trying our best on a tiny budget!
It’s up online now, sorry for delay
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.storymap.AndroidStoryMap
Great idea, fair play to the lads.
But…. If people, especially tourists, use it as they are in the location, which I’m assuming is the idea… I can just imagine that map with the dots being the new high risk areas to get your phone swiped out of your hand!
Not begrudging the great idea.. Just saying is all!!
looking forward to buying it guys! Well done.
Genius idea that will be a keeper for life!
Great idea – Dublin band The Pale did something similar for their last album, https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/the-pale-i-woke-up-and-i-was-gone/id473266441?mt=8 (disclosure I helped them a bit with it). Love the concept of Dublin folk talking about their city and walking tours of those locations – both apps have unearthed a few gems for me
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