Havok Moving On?

This is an article which appeared in the Irish Times on Friday, February 13th. John Collins reports on the possibility that Havok, a now Intel owned physics engine company spun out of Trinity College Dublin, might move their operations abroad "due to the lack of talented software engineers in the country". This is of particular interest to me as I'm currently studying a game development MSc in Trinity. Collins interviewed Havok CEO, David O’Meara, who had some rather scathing words about the standard of physics software developers in Ireland, and especially Trinity.

"If we want a smart economy, it is the top 5 per cent of graduates that create the knowledge – we have to be worried about them, not the average student. If you get less than 350 points in the Leaving Cert, I would question if you have the cognitive ability to do engineering at third level." - O'Meara

The Leaving Certificate entry points for Computer Science are floating around the 350 mark, which I believe is what O'Meara is referring to in this case. The article can be read here...but it makes for pretty grim reading...