Primary

ICT in primary curriculum – an enabler for economic recovery?

07/03/2012

The Government announced last month that all second-level schools are to get high-speed broadband by 2014. They failed to offer any similar commitment to primary schools where, according to a [...]

Merging Arts and Science

01/03/2012

In my last blog I discussed how creativity is becoming an important objective of education. I’ve also referred to the fact that science and science education are becoming increasingly aware of [...]

ICT as a foundation for future learning

29/02/2012

At a recent Science Foundation Ireland forum on how science and industry can work together for economic recovery, Mark Little, the former RTÉ broadcaster and now a social media entrepreneur, [...]

Creativity in Science education

21/02/2012

Creativity has become an important goal for science education in the last decades. Traditionally science and math education dismissed creativity. It was stated that creative thinking was secondary to the [...]

Conference 2012 – a worthwhile exercise

14/02/2012

Last month’s IPPN conference was a huge success, drawing together more than 1,100 primary school leaders and renowned educationalists for a three-day symposium on how the role of principal has [...]

Science Outreach, coercion?

13/02/2012

The idea for today’s blog came from the wonderfully dangerous (for a post-graduate student) world of social media. One of these days, on one of my procrastinating activities, I [...]

Four or Six years in the Primary Level? Different options by different countries

06/02/2012

Today, I would like to share with you some thoughts regarding the difference between the time lengths that the primary cycle has in different countries. I am now at a [...]

The role of parents in primary education

30/01/2012

Considering the critical role parents play in the education of their children, and how that role is underpinned by the constitution, parents collectively have had relatively little influence in shaping [...]

Closing Schools, closing Communities

29/01/2012

Today I’ll be moving away from my regular theme for these blogs as I could not let pass what I read in the insightful blog written by Seán Cottrell As [...]

Budget rips heart out of rural Ireland

23/01/2012

Last month, RTE’s Six One news carried the happy and heart-warming story of Coolderry hurlers returning with the Leinster club hurling trophy to the cradle of their hurling civilization – [...]

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ICT in primary curriculum – an enabler for economic recovery?

Merging Arts and Science

ICT as a foundation for future learning

Creativity in Science education

Conference 2012 – a worthwhile exercise

Science Outreach, coercion?

Four or Six years in the Primary Level? Different options by different countries

The role of parents in primary education

Closing Schools, closing Communities

Budget rips heart out of rural Ireland

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Exciting new self-publishing feature on the Education Matters Blog

Chief Executive Officer change at Hibernia College

Social Media in Education

ASTI and TUI members surveyed regarding the amalgamation of the two unions

Arts Council announces new Irish-language Theatre Production and Touring Award

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Exciting new self-publishing feature on the Education Matters Blog

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