He said that the solutions were "not obvious" but required a debate over subjects that some politicians considered taboo.

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The minister said some students might not have the grades required for courses in Northern Ireland and some subjects, for example veterinary science, were only available outside Northern Ireland.

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Entrepreneurship should be a required course in every school around the world, alongside traditional subjects such as math, science and language.

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While in the scanner she was shown responses of four other subjects to the pairs of objects before seeing them herself, then performed the mental rotation required to evaluate the images.

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