The Irish Times - Education

On an unjust Irish oral examination

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:13:49 GMT

TBH: An unheard voice in educationA leaving cert student writes:

Teacher's pet

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:13:49 GMT

An insider's guide to education

What's the talk of education?

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:13:49 GMT

Review of the Department of Education

It's time to escape from a narrow college admissions system

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:13:48 GMT

LEFTFIELD:IN TWENTY-TWO days’ time almost 59,000 Irish students will sit down to begin one of the most stressful examinations of their lives. The real stress, however, comes not so much with the Leaving Certificate examination, as with the points race that accompanies it.

'LCA has made me more confident'

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:13:48 GMT

MY EDUCATION WEEK:Ashling St Sevin is a 17-year-old Leaving Cert Applied (LCA) student at Arklow Community College

Jump into summer!

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:13:48 GMT

You don’t have to wait until school’s out to plan what to do. Whether you’re into film-making or football, science or surfing, there’s a summer camp for you, writesGRAINNE FALLER

Why Bahraini human rights matter in Dublin

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:32:46 GMT

Controversy over the involvement of Ireland’s Royal College of Surgeons in Bahrain has prompted new guidelines on human rights for third-level colleges with operations abroad, writesMARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent

Call for guidance on school closures

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:35:55 GMT

TBH:An unheard voice in education

Teacher's pet

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:35:55 GMT

The real scandal in Tipperary

Chatterbox

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:35:54 GMT

What's the talk of education?

Time we relied on our own expertise

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:35:54 GMT

LEFTFIELD:IRELAND WAS known the world over as the ‘island of saints and scholars’, and we traded on that reputation for many years. How often did teachers report receiving a new pupil from the UK or the US but, after a while, advise the parents that their child should drop back a class? Improvements to primary education were made. Progress was slow, but it was steady.

Reading, writing and washing-up

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:35:54 GMT

MY EDUCATION WEEK: Paula Lynch Ahern, who is dyslexic, took part in last night’s episode of the RTÉ series ‘A Story With Me In It’, with help from author Kate Kerrigan

A sense of hope for a future when non-Catholics may go elsewhere

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:54:59 GMT

TO BE HONEST: An unheard voice in education

Chatterbox

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:54:59 GMT

What's the talk of education

Teacher's Pet

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:54:59 GMT

An insider's guide to education

ASTI concerns about JC reform

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:54:59 GMT

LEFTFIELD:IN 2010 THE National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) published a discussion paper, Innovation and Identity: Towards a New Junior Cycle. Following in-depth analysis of the discussion paper, the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) formulated a policy position on Junior Cycle reform and has maintained this position ever since.

The bleak future of the Irish university

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:54:59 GMT

TOM GARVIN, emeritus professor at University College Dublin, details the unfortunate push of the Irish university system towards a more commercialised, bureaucratic, almost Orwellian vision

Big changes in elearning sphere

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:54:58 GMT

MY EDUCATION WEEK:PATRICK BARRY, Digital development manager at the Educational Company of Ireland

Teacher's Pet

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:48:11 GMT

An insider’s guide to education

A victim of the unfair anomaly in Leaving Cert oral Irish

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:48:10 GMT

TO BE HONEST: A PARENT WRITES:There is an extraordinary anomaly in the marking of the new Leaving Cert Irish oral examination.

Why the school patronage report is doomed to fail

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:48:10 GMT

LEFTFIELD:A THOUGHT experiment for Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn. Imagine your child is due to start school next September. You and your partner are Catholics, and you have a choice between two scenarios.

Training teachers the Catholic way

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:48:10 GMT

AT THE CEREMONY for his inauguration as president of Mary Immaculate College of Education, one of the largest primary-teacher training colleges in the State, the Rev Prof Michael Hayes gave a speech that had many of those present, Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn included, shifting uncomfortably in their seats.

No teaching, but the work goes on

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 23:48:10 GMT

MY EDUCATION WEEK:BRIAN LUCEY, Professor of finance, Trinity College Dublin

Teacher's Pet

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:34:07 GMT

An insider’s guide to education

To Be Honest - An Unheard Voice in Education

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:34:07 GMT

TBH:A second-level teacher writes:

Chatterbox

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:34:06 GMT

What’s The Talk Of Education

We're not allowing for harsh realities

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:34:06 GMT

LEFTFIELD:IN THE MIDST of the discussion about allowances paid to teachers, it is difficult to see the bigger picture. Of course, the debate surrounding allowances should encompass a value-for-money analysis of the management structure in our schools, but the bigger question is whether that structure is fit for purpose in the modern age.

Heads down for the Junior Cert

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:34:05 GMT

JASMIN HUSYMANS, a student at Muckross Park College in Donnybrook, in Dublin, secured 11 A grades in her Junior Cert exams last year. How did she do it?

Getting it all down to a science

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:34:04 GMT

LUKE DRURY:Director, School of Cosmic Physics, DIAS; president, Royal Irish Academy

Teacher’s Pet

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:42:51 GMT

Mind your mannersOnly one question dominates the teacher conference chatter – what kind of reception awaits Ruairí Quinn today at the INTO and the ASTI and tomorrow at the TUI?

It is in everybody's interest for small schools to work together

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:42:51 GMT

TBH:I am a principal of a primary school. We are in the same parish as two other primary schools. For years, parents at my school have complained that the schools don’t all take holidays on the same days. There are many days that we have to take together (major holidays) but there are ‘discretionary days’ that the schools themselves choose from the calendar. It’s very awkward for those parents who have children in different schools. Each year I am asked why these days cannot be co-ordinated and I cannot give a satisfactory answer.

What's the talk of education

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:42:51 GMT

“INAPPROPRIATE” FOR TEACHERS TO BEFRIEND PUPILS ON FACEBOOK – QUINN

Congress is not a whinge-fest

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:42:50 GMT

LEFTFIELD:I SUPPOSE as good a place as any to start is with the facts. The annual congress of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) is the governing body of the union. It is a meeting that is more than usually democratic and one that is always robust. It is not, in spite of the tabloid terms used far too frequently to characterise it, a whinge-fest. Nor is it a gladiatorial contest where limbs are severed. It is blunt; sometimes inquisitorial, but it is always about the core business of the union. It addresses the concerns and aspirations of the almost 15,000 members of TUI. Its purpose is to serve them and they are represented at the congress by over 400 delegates.

A busy week in Aberdeen

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:42:50 GMT

MY EDUCATION WEEK: FERDINAND VON PRONDZYNSKI,principal of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Your leaving cert: 57 days to go

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:42:49 GMT

RORY CREANis a first-year medical student who got six As in his Leaving Cert last year. He shares his timetable for the last two months of study.

Chatterbox

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:17:01 GMT

What's the talk of education

Teacher's Pet

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:17:01 GMT

An insider's guide to education

Advice to mother of Leaving cert boy

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:17:00 GMT

TO BE HONEST:An unheard voice in education

We must work together to solve third level crises

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:17:00 GMT

LEFTFIELD:IRISH HIGHER Education is at a crossroads. Successive budget cuts and the wider economic climate have impacted massively, not only on academic standards, but also on the entire student experience. Student fees have increased again, job prospects are bleak and many final year students are accepting emigration as a fait accompli.

Is it time to switch off Facebook?

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:17:00 GMT

Studies show students are spending between six and 10 hours per week on Facebook. Is the social networking site now the biggest-ever threat to study habits?

To Korea to teach and play GAA

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:17:00 GMT

MY EDUCATION WEEK:Thomas Gaughan (24), teacher, South Korea

Non-Irish children perform better because their parents value education

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:10:00 GMT

TBH:I’m going to start my rant with the standard disclaimer: “I am not a racist but . . .”

Teacher’s Pet

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:09:59 GMT

An insider’s guide to education

Chatterbox

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:09:59 GMT

What's the talk of education

How Mooney got it all wrong

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:09:59 GMT

LEFTFIELD:PAUL MOONEY’S “Inside third level” article caused quite a stir, and no wonder. His unique exposé took readers so far inside third level that small details – such as mentioning any actual educational institutions – ceased to matter, and revealed a truth so profound it didn’t require the production of a single fact.

Selling next year's schoolbooks

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:09:59 GMT

EMMA FARRELL, Educational sales rep for Gill Macmillan, on a week of visiting schools

Anseo! How a new generation of gay teachers is fighting back

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:09:59 GMT

There is an assumption that all teachers are straight – but they’re not and even though there is no legislation to protect them, some gay teachers are coming out, writesGRAINNE FALLER

Inside third level

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:05:08 GMT

A former college president lifts the lid on third level, where he says lecturers have light workloads, research pet projects that have no benefit for Ireland Inc, and management is poor, writes PAUL MOONEY

I can't blame my son for his lack of interest in the Leaving Cert

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:27:35 GMT

TBH:My 17-year-old son is sitting his Leaving Cert in three months. He has no interest in the books or in any of the subjects he is taking and I can’t force him to study – he’s practically a man.

What's the talk of education

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:27:35 GMT

CHATTERBOX: RUAIRÍ QUINN AND THAT MORNING IRELAND INTERVIEW ON RTÉ

Teacher's Pet

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:27:35 GMT

An insider's guide to education

Teachers must come from all sections of society

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:27:35 GMT

LEFTFIELD:CHILDREN FROM disadvantaged communities typically don’t grow up to be teachers; typically don’t return to their old schools as education leaders or beacons of educational advancement.

Flying the Galway flag in the US

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:27:34 GMT

Dr Jim Browne, president of NUI Galway, on a week spent networking in the US

Staying away from the ASTI Convention

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:36:29 GMT

TBH:I HAVE ATTENDED the annual teacher conference for many years but this year I will not be going. I always thought it was important to be there, to get a chance to put my view forward.

Chatterbox

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:36:29 GMT

What’s the talk of education

Teacher's Pet

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:36:28 GMT

An insider's guide to education

A blank slate to reinvent secondary schools

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:36:28 GMT

LEFTFIELD:IRISH PARENTS increasingly want more for their children than just Leaving Certificate points. Parents of the 14,000 pupils in the 60 Educate Together primary schools around the country have been campaigning for a new type of second-level school for more than 10 years. They want second-level schools that will help their children become confident, ethical, critical and creative thinkers. They want them to develop lifelong learning skills and they want them to thrive academically and to develop personally and socially.

'The cost of going to college here is similar to what it would be in the US'

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:36:28 GMT

MY EDUCATION WEEK:TARA McELLIGOT (18) from San Francisco. Studying international law in UCC

The private primary: can it survive?

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:36:28 GMT

With news that St Anne’s primary school in Dún Laoghaire is set to close, making it the latest victim of the recession, we examine the viability of this niche in the private education sector