Schoolchildren ‘will be turned away’ [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 25 March 2010
THE Department of Education has acknowledged that up to 64 additional second-level classrooms will have to be built in the next five years to provide for a major population explosion adjacent to the Cork-Midleton railway line.
Earlier this week, before Batt O’Keeffe was transferred to the new Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Department, the ex-education minister said he was taking "decisive steps" to address the situation.
Full Story: www.irishexaminer.com
Threat of school closures after jobs embargo action stepped up [Independent.ie]
- Published: 25 March 2010
THE prospect of school closures in the autumn on health and safety grounds hardened last night as the secondary teachers' union stepped up action over the jobs embargo.
Last month, the Irish Independent revealed that the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) union had directed members not to undertake any duties carried out by teachers in middle-management positions who were not replaced when they retired.
Full Story: www.independent.ie
Primary Principals Raise €40k For Haiti Children’s Education
- Published: 24 March 2010
In response to a suggestion from Principals attending the annual conference of the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN), more than €40,000 has been raised by primary schools for the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. The money raised will be specifically targeted towards re-building and equipping primary schools that were devastated by the earthquake. In addition, funds will also be used for health and education programmes in the worst affected areas. IPPN Director, Seán Cottrell said 'attending school has been identified as a crucial therapy for traumatised children. School re-establishes their daily routine and provides a safe place that they can escape to for a few hours every day’.
How students are clicking with their cyber-teachers [Independent.ie]
- Published: 24 March 2010
If it succeeds it could revolutionise the delivery of Irish grinds and turn an elite group of teachers into high-earning celebrities.
This week, CVS Learning, the company behind Eircom's StudyHub and Examsupport.ie, launched a new website offering live online tuition to Junior and Leaving Cert students.
At ExamVillage.com, students and teachers are able to interact with each other at a live class using web cameras.
Teachers using the site can provide tuition online to single students or a whole class.
Full Story: www.independent.ie
Pathways scheme to facilitate access to previously restricted library books [learningireland.ie]
- Published: 24 March 2010
MEMBERS of any of Cork's eight libraries can access millions of books and other resources in the other facilities in the city and county under the first scheme of its kind in the country. The Pathways to Learning (PAL) initiative opens up the previously restricted sharing of books, archives and other collections held in libraries operated by local authorities, third level colleges and hospitals. It will mean that, by prior arrangement organised between libraries, a user of one service can arrange to visit another library to read or view books or other parts of its collection not currently available to them.
The creation of a new PAL card will facilitate access to all collections at Cork City Library, Cork County Library, Cork Institute of Technology, University College Cork, Cork University Hospital, Mercy University Hospital and South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital.
Full Story: www.learningireland.ie
