Pól Ó Dochartaigh is Professor of German, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Dean of the Confucius Institute for Northern Ireland at the University of Ulster. He is also President of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland. He has published nine books and forty-plus research articles on German, Jewish and Irish themes. He lives in Co. Antrim with his wife Geraldine, where they are raising their children as bilingual speakers of English and Irish.
The STEM agenda is Northern Ireland’s politicians’ and businessmen’s current cure for all it’s economic woes. They see manufacturing as the key wealth generator.