Minister Haughey opens National Seminar Making your Education Plan Work Better for You: New Tools for Embedding Equality into Education Plans [education.ie]
- Published: 28 May 2010
Seán Haughey TD, Minister for Lifelong Learning today opened the National Seminar Making your Education Plan Work Better for You: New Tools for Embedding Equality into Education Plans.
The seminar was hosted by the Equality Authority and organised in co-operation with Department of Education and Skills, the Further Education Support Service (FESS) and the Irish Vocational Education Association (IVEA).
This important event took place at the Department of Education and Skills Clock Tower Conference Centre, Marlborough Street in Dublin.
The focus of the seminar is to showcase and disseminate the learning from three VECs who were engaged in pilot projects to put in place equality mainstreaming action plans within their particular organisations.
The seminar demonstrates the benefits and ways of embedding equality into VEC Education Plans, and also features the equality tool developed by FESS to support the equality dimension within the Further Education Training Awards Council (FETAC) Quality Assurance.
Opening the seminar, Minister Haughey said 'I am delighted to be here today to officially open this timely Equality Authority Seminar.'
'The purpose of today's seminar is to inform policy and decision makers in the VEC sector on how to mainstream equality into their programmes and educational policies.'
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