Children who behave badly suffer more pain as adults [Herald.ie]
- Published: 10 March 2010
Children with behavioural problems at school are more than twice as likely to suffer chronic pain in adulthood, researchers have revealed.
Experts believe there could be a biological link between poor behaviour and the feelings of pain experienced by some people. More than 18,000 children, born in one week in 1958 were examined for the study, published in the journal Rheumatology.
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A variety of information was collected on the children at the age of seven, 11 and 16, and again at 42 and 45.
Parents and teachers separately assessed children's behaviour in areas such as restlessness, worrying, being alone, ability to make friends, obedience, stealing, sucking thumbs and biting nails, lying, bullying and skipping school.
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Principals angry at supply panel axing [Independent.ie]
- Published: 10 March 2010
ANGRY primary school principals hit out at the axing of the Dundalk Teacher Supply Panel which provides cover for teachers on sick leave in local schools.
The panel scheme which was first piloted in Dundalk in 1993 and made permanent in 1998 was dealt a fatal blow in the December budget when it fell under a range of planned educational cuts.
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Online teacher training goes the distance [IrishTimes]
- Published: 09 March 2010
EDUCATION PROFILE: Paudie O’Neill gave up a high-flying career as an engineer to train to be a primary teacher and online training allowed him to manage the change, writes LOUISE HOLDEN
‘THOSE WHO can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” Now there’s a red rag to a teacher. Growing numbers of teacher trainees are upending the adage, however. People like Paudie O’Neill, for example, who worked as a civil engineer for six years but realised well along the path of a successful career that he really wanted to be in the classroom.“I wasn’t pushed out by the recession; it was at the height of the boom that I decided my heart wasn’t in it,” says Paudie, a 30-year-old homeowner from Carrigaline in Cork. The home-owning part is significant: Paudie could not afford to give up his day job and go to Mary Immaculate, the closest college of education to his home.
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Schools, courts and hospitals in strike frontline [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 09 March 2010
SCHOOLS, courts and hospitals face crippling mass walkouts as they became the frontline in a rapidly escalating war of attrition between unions and the Government over public sector pay cuts.
More than 300,000 workers were set to take part in coordinated waves of industrial action as the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) warned ministers to restore wage rates or deal with the consequences.
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Teacher's Pet [IrishTimes]
- Published: 09 March 2010
An insider's guide to education
- WHO ARE the big winners and losers in the grade inflation scandal which has had such a huge impact across the education system?
Politically, Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe is being rightly credited for his resolution in taking on the sensitive issue. His decision to launch an inquiry was even lauded by Brian Hayes of Fine Gael and Ruairí Quinn of Labour. To his credit, O’Keeffe – like Noel Dempsey – has always been sceptical about the extravagant claims made about Ireland’s “world class’’ education system. Intel and the rest told him we were average at best – and he responded.
- JIM O’HARA , general manager of Intel Ireland, and John Herlihy, a vice president with Google, also deserve great credit. It was O’Hara who played a key behind-the-scenes role to bring former Intel chief Craig Barrett to the Farmleigh summit last summer, when he first exposed the deep-rooted problems in Irish education.
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