evidence: Ireland ranks high on third-level education in OECD 'Education at a Glance' report; Ministers Harris and Collins welcome the findings [...] Minister for Further and Higher Education, Innovation, Research and Science, Simon Harris, and Minister of State, Niall Collins have today welcomed the OECD report, 'Education at a Glance' (EAG), which showed that the number of young people in Ireland attending third-level education is significantly above the OECD average. [...] "We should be very proud of the numbers of people in Ireland who choose to further their education at a tertiary level.