Policy positions

Landing page (from Politics) for bmjphilosophy Policy positions.

= bmjphilosophy Irish policy =

Irish education/R&D/innovation ideas

 * Education (Primary and Secondary)
 * Emphasis on Statistical literacy, The nuance of academic/scientific interpretation, The complexity of economics/politics, The importance of liberal world order, Coding, Bio/Chem/Phys (i.e. Pharma)
 * Education (Third-level) & Academia
 * World-leading teacher education / theory of education
 * Science seen as quintessentially Irish
 * Overseas tax-breaks better for companies investing in Irish academia
 * Integration in the CANZUK university system -- CANZUKI
 * Higher standards of Level 8 education than Britain -- Level 8 means Level 8, in-demand graduates
 * Irish specialty: Worldwide academic standards adjudicating
 * High pay for academics--but need to find a way to justify and without tenure
 * Irish specialty: Academic publishing
 * Talent acquisition/HR
 * Irish specialty: Hiring for academia/tech/data science

Irish employment

 * Legal/administrative infrastructure required for flexible/part-time working
 * (to maximise the role of women, to facilitate passion projects by high earners)
 * Civil service
 * Elite / competitive -- HSE is a widely-respected job (not a doss)
 * Fixed annual percentage of civil service job terminations (tethered to productivity) for each department / level of seniority -- the purpose is so that the private sector is seen as the easy option, so people know what they are getting themselves in for and can't go to the labour courts
 * Irish specialty: Bureaucracy suppression in all civil service areas

Irish housing & infrastructure

 * Low-cost living options for educated people -- to facilitate start-up culture, start-up villages
 * Data
 * Irish specialty: Data architecture, seamless data gathering, routine data analysis, data security

Irish political stability

 * Immigration
 * Australian system
 * Class / Ideological movements
 * (Don't have the answer -- do something to address the unrest which follows perceived inequality)
 * Irish specialty: Ideological movements are scorned as hyponuanced, embarrassingly simple, historically naive
 * Media
 * Powerful enforcement of online libel/harassment laws
 * Non-anonymous state Twitter
 * Ireland having highest readership of nuanced reporting in the world