{"id":115727,"date":"2025-08-28T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115727\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:33:08","slug":"how-this-successful-entrepreneur-refused-to-be-defined-by-his-lack-of-third-level-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/115727\/","title":{"rendered":"How this successful entrepreneur refused to be defined by his lack of third level qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Wexford-based Karl Fitzpatrick was a finalist in this year&#8217;s EY Entrepreneur of the Year competition and is president of Chevron College\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Karl described being a finalist as the &quot;honour of a lifetime.&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3f9ca5e0-6806-4759-883b-bf4eac1624a7.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Karl described being a finalist as the &#8220;honour of a lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is true that the Leaving Cert is a rite of passage for most young men and women since secondary school education was made free by then  Education Minister Donogh O\u2019Malley in 1967.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For many, it\u2019s not necessarily an enjoyable path, or objectively, an especially fair one. Everybody takes a different track to get to where they want and the outcome of the exams are by no means definitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wexford-based Karl Fitzpatrick was a finalist in this year&#8217;s EY Entrepreneur of the Year competition and is president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,75156,158,75157],"class_list":{"0":"post-115727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cillian-boggan","10":"tag-entrepreneurship","11":"tag-leaving-certificate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}