Coughlan's curriculum [IrishTimes]
- Published: 05 April 2010
The new Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan, faces a baptism of fire at this week’s teacher conferences but the education brief also gives her an opportunity to rebuild her political career. SEÁN FLYNN, Education Editor, gives her some advice
THE NEW MINISTER for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan, spent most of last week buried in a mass of briefing documents prepared by secretary general Brigid McManus and her team of senior officials.
Coughlan is the first Minister for Education whose appointment has been branded as a political demotion since Michael Woods took the post in 2000. Since then, Micheál Martin, Noel Dempsey, Mary Hanafin and Batt O’Keeffe arrived in Marlborough Street as upwardly mobile politicians with reputations to build.
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