Minister Haughey announces Ireland's participation in a new international literacy survey [education.ie]
- Published: 18 November 2009
The Minister for Lifelong Learning, Sean Haughey TD, today announced Ireland's participation in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), a new OECD international survey of adult competencies and skills, including literacy and numeracy.
PIAAC is a major international survey of adults between the ages of 16-65 on a range of skills covering the interest, attitude and capacity of individual adults to access, manage, understand, integrate and evaluate various types of information (principally text and numerical) as well as to respond and communicate with others in the information age.
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Minister O'Keeffe urges schools to work with HSE as swine flu vaccine plan begins [education.ie]
- Published: 18 November 2009
The Minister for Education and Science, Batt O'Keeffe TD, today urged schools to continue to cooperate with the Health Services Executive (HSE) ahead of the planned swine flu vaccination programme for children which starts next week.
The Department of Education and Science has written to all schools advising them of the arrangements the HSE is putting in place for the start of the vaccination programme.
The HSE is making arrangements to distribute information on the vaccination programme to the parents of every child enrolled in a school.
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Govt cuts will lead to alienation, not integration [Independent.ie]
- Published: 18 November 2009
Oh no, they've called a strike for the 24th! We're not allowed to go to work next Tuesday. It's not that, like the commentators on RTE, I'm afraid of what the IMF will do to us if we're caught protesting (do they have an air force that could bomb us or do they just stop our pocket-money?), it's because I was really looking forward to going to work that day.
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Archbishop opposes further school cuts [IrishTimes]
- Published: 18 November 2009
THE ARCHBISHOP of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin, has spoken out against further education cuts in the forthcoming budget.
He said welfare payments were an investment in marginalised people, and that society would "lose out" in the long-term if people dependent on welfare were unduly hit.
Speaking at the blessing of a new community centre to help families dealing with drug and alcohol addiction in Artane, Dublin, yesterday, Dr Martin said "everybody" was worried about welfare cuts in next month's budget.
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Computers in schools [IrishTimes]
- Published: 18 November 2009
Madam, - The announcement of a €150 million investment in laptops for classrooms (News, November 16th) at a time when the Minister for Education seems intent on increasing the student to teacher ratio, illustrates perfectly the value our Government puts on human relationships. - Yours, etc,
DAVID QUINN,
Churchtown Road,
Dublin 14.
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