Eamon Dunphy was at it again on the Late Late show recently: ”Our political leaders are well meaning, but totally out of their depth, because many of them happen to [...]
I was delighted to hear the radio ad from the Institute of Guidance Counsellors reminding the public of their availability in their local school to advise parents and students about [...]
Media comment over Christmas concentrated on the impact on schools, and the effects on pupils, of having to offer a guidance service outside the quota in the next school year, [...]
The Irish education system is beginning to experience the real implications of the ‘Austerity Programme’ agreed with the ECB/IMF. We are like terrified passengers on a runaway train, heading into [...]
In this article, using a question on Literary Genre from the English Leaving Certificate Higher Level paper 2008, we will compare and contrast Michael Curtiz’s film Casablanca and Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, prescribed texts for [...]
I think the best aspect of the Budget as regards to second level education was the decision to leave the pupil teacher ratio at 19 to 1. As with most [...]
League tables, as published in Irish newspapers, feed into a mindset which regards a good teacher as one who teaches to the test. Glorifying schools where 100% of students go [...]
There’s never a better time to be inventive than when there’s no money for anything – and boy is that the case now! Things happen in Irish education because life [...]
Education matters, but not as much as schooling when it comes to securing a job and decent salary – or so it has been for many centuries. At the World Innovation [...]
