“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme, Professor John Naughton, who is Vice-President of Wolfson College Cambridge, explains the difference between the internet and the world wide web and why the difference matters for educators …” (more, mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 13 May]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. For this interview I met up with Professor Eric Hanushek from Stanford University and spoke to him about important issues in education – such as class size, international test results, and teacher pay – from an economics perspective. The interview took place at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.” (mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 5 May]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme, Dr Fionnuala Waldron from St. Patrick’s College discusses the teaching of history.” (mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 29 April]
“Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) is building a new campus at Grangegorman in the heart Dublin city which will bring all of the existing colleges together in one location for the first time in 125 years …” (video)
[YouTube, 24 April]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme Dr Fionnuala Waldron, who is Dean of Education in St Patrick’s College, talks about the new book she co-edited, about teacher education and about the integration of subjects across the curriculum. The book is called Re-imagining Initial Teacher Education: Perspectives on Transformation and is published by The Liffey Press.” (mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 21 April]
“A majority of public sector workers have voted against the proposed new pay and working conditions agreement contained in Croke Park II. There are many arguments, both for and against this development …” (mp3)
[Claire Ryan, Audioboo, 19 April]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme, I speak to Professor Brian Mac Craith, President of Dublin City University, about the Séamus Heaney Lecture he gave in St Patrick’s College, titled Envisioning the Future of Education, and about his work as a university president today.” (audio)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 7 April]
“The main issue at union conferences has been the reduction in teachers’ pay. However there are other pressing socio-economic problems in schools which must be addressed.” (audio)
[Claire Ryan, Audioboo, 5 April]
“The Teachers’ Union of Ireland is to ballot members for industrial action, up to and including strike action, if the Government decides to impose the Croke Park 2 proposals … ” (video)
[RTÉ News, 3 April]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme I speak to the general secretaries of the three teaching unions to preview their respective conferences which take place this week …” (more, mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 31 March]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme, Professor Stephen Ball from the Institute of Education at the University of London talks about how he uses the discipline of sociology, and in particular the work of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu to study education policy …” (more, mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 24 March]
“Vere Foster Trust and the Institute of Educational Research in Ireland. Public Lecture Series on Irish Education in an Age of Austerity. Professor Stephen Ball Lecture.” (video)
[Dublin City University, 13 March]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme, Joe Dale, who presented at the CESI Conference 2013, talks about many ways in which technology can support language learning …” (more, mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 18 March]
“As a panel we were asked to speak about what the sector can do to pull together and communicate the value of higher education to politicians and the public. I just want to make three points …” (more)
[Tamson Pietsch, CDBU, 17 March]
“€1m is to be invested in an Irish analytics centre for researching so-called big data. The sector is growing at 40% per annum worldwide, and is said to have the potential to create thousands of jobs …” (video)
[RTÉ News, 15 March]
“Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. On this week’s programme I spoke to Catherine Cronin, who is Academic Coordinator of online IT programmes and lecturer in IT at NUI Galway about girls and women and technology and about online learning …” (mp3)
[Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM, 12 March]
“Trinity College Dublin celebrated the Chinese New Year of the Snake during February which featured a traditional Dragon dance in Front Square and a series of other events …” (more, video)
[YouTube, 12 March]
“DCU has reported a significant swing in the direction of STEM-based courses in terms of CAO first preference figures. The university said it attracted more than 4,000 first preference applications …” (more, video)
[John Kennedy, Silicon Republic, 9 March]
“Was having lunch at NUI Galway when a lunatic dressed as Santa Claus stumbled into the eating area and started causing trouble. It wasn’t long before the college security showed up and removed him quite unceremoniously!!!!!!” (video)
[YouTube, 26 February]
“An unidentified student was filmed having a physical altercation with a bouncer on Tuesday in Supermacs on Eyre Square. It is not known how the fight started, but when the video begins, we see a bouncer under the employ of Irish fast food chain Supermacs holding one person by his collar, before turning his attention to another man in a blue t-shirt, who appears to be stepping in to help his friend …” (more)
[Stephen McGovern, College Times, 20 February]
