In this article, taken from Education Matters Yearbook 8, Peter Lydon explores current and potential use of tablets for teaching and learning. I have been using computers for over 36 years.…
As the 2014 calendar year winds towards its end we at Education Matters are savouring the conclusion of a very busy but tremendously rewarding and successful twelve months. We are naturally very…
Frontiers of science need to connect with the school system, says S.Ananthanarayanan. India has a large challenge of providing bare literacy to vast numbers. Even so, there is a case for…
S ANANTHANARAYANAN discusses how this institution of learning is changing from the inside as well as the outside: Scholarship only Early universities, whether at Nalanda in India or the monasteries of 11th…
The Pine Forest Art Centre at Glencullen, in the Dublin Mountains, has been providing creative and educational art and craft courses to children and young people for over 40 years.…
With Leaving Certificate students all over the county nervously awaiting the results of their State exams this Wednesday 13 August there is no doubt some students will get the results…
I’ve always thought it worthwhile to do a little dissecting of one’s work after it has been left for a time to digest. There is a certain amount of work…