An Irish entrepreneur has strongly criticised the way Maths is taught in schools, saying Ireland cannot produce world class programmers unless this changes.
Stockbyte founder Jerry Kennelly said the standard of Maths classes has been described as remedial, and he said it has to be rethought starting with primary school.
He said we need to improve standards in order to create the future entrepreneurs who will create wealth and jobs.
Mr Kennelly sold Stockbyte to Getty Images for €110m in 2006.
He was speaking at the Dublin Web Summit where 500 delegates from the technology world are taking part in start-up workshops and conferences.
A new start-up boot camp, backed by Enterprise Ireland, was also announced at the conference.
The aim is to attract international entrepreneurs to Ireland for a new mentoring and funding three-month programme which will begin in the autumn.
The Dublin programme will be run by Eoghan Jennings, former CFO of Xing, and is also backed by IBM and Citi.
