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- Don’t force our children to use iPads (21 May) - "My daughter is due to start secondary school in September. We have recently been informed about a proposed introduction of iPads at the school for...
- 'Inappropriate' for Garvey to remain as IT chairman (19 May) - "'It is inappropriate and not in the best interests of the institute' for Flan Garvey to remain as chairman of the college’s governing board,...
- Third Level Staff Remuneration (22 May) - "Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular the number of third level lecturers who receive an...
- Minister Sherlock announces €6.9m in funding for 62 research projects (23 May) - "Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock TD has announced Government funding through Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) of €6.9m,...
- 55 public-paid educators earning more than the Taoiseach (18 May) - "A total of 55 staff under the remit of the Department of Education and Skills earn more than the Taoiseach, it has emerged ..." (more)
- Third Level Courses Availability - LIT Tipperary Clonmel Campus (22 May) - "Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CAO applications for BSC Honours Computing and Creative Multi-Media...
- Howlin vows compulsory redundancies unless public servants accept deal (21 May) - "Public servants face compulsory redundancies unless they accept a new deal on cuts in pay and pensions, the Government has warned ..." (more)
- Academic Year (22 May) - "Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to increasing the academic year to a third...
- Has Higher Education Lost Control Over Quality? (23 May) - "Educational quality is now a hot topic in higher education globally.In recent months, I have been involved in institutional assessments and...
- What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC Students (21 May) - "If people who sit at their computers for tens of hours each week zapping virtual monsters are hard-core gamers, then massive open online courses have...
- Lecturer’s fluency can make students over-confident (16 May) - "I found the study below fascinating and not just because it gives me an excuse to be less than fluent when I’m teaching ..." (more)
- Public sector pay deal announced (21 May) - "A deal has been struck between the Government and unions on a revised public sector pay deal, it has been announced ..." (more)
- Continued cuts risk the future of our third-level sector (21 May) - "Policy decisions are taken without considering policy and planning. Irish universities have absorbed serious funding cuts and now face a crisis ..."...
- Strike fears grow as teachers reject pay proposals (24 May) - "The prospect of industrial action in schools in the autumn increased last night after the executives of two teaching unions effectively rejected the...
- Education sector proposals (21 May) - "The following are the Education Sector Proposals issued to teaching unions following over night talks ..." (more)
- The Role of Blogging in the Academic Feedback Cycle (20 May) - "Last year I delivered a couple of research papers on the history of crime. The first was in October at the Institute of Historical Research or the...
- Hundreds of secondary teachers on €100k (24 May) - "There are 371 teachers in second-level schools on salaries of more than €100,000 ..." (more)
- Guide to the Universities Act 1997, updated (20 May) - I have updated my guide to the Universities Act, including commentary and the text of the Act as amended to date. Download from here. All comments and...
- New evidence on class size effects (20 May) - "A paper I co-authored with Veruska Oppedisano (London Metropolitan University) has just been published in Labour Economics. It's gated (but obviously...
- Revised proposals more than ‘tweaks’ to rejected deal (22 May) - "The revised Croke Park II proposals do not just represent a 'tweaking' of the deal rejected last month. Neither are they a whole new blueprint for...
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