School grant system creates digital divide [Independent]
- Published: 20 October 2009
BROTHERS and sisters in two schools in inner city Dublin have found themselves separated by the digital divide.
The schools are only five metres apart, but a new technology gap has opened up. Both are designated as disadvantaged, but one was selected for a €17,156 grant for computers -- and the other got nothing.
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Education = health [Irish Times]
- Published: 20 October 2009
The relationship between education and health has not been investigated to any great extent in this State, but studies carried out in other countries show a clear correlation between average education and health/life expectancy, writes DON RYAN
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Not level playing field when it comes to new Gaelscoil [Irish Times]
- Published: 20 October 2009
The struggle over the siting of a Gaelscoil raises serious questions about segregation in education, writes ELAINE BYRNE
'SAVE THE Tank Field" is the rallying call of the posters on the telephone polls and hedgerows dotted in the Cork housing estates north of the river Lee, from Patrick's Bridge up to St Luke's into Dillons Cross, Mayfield and finally to Montenotte. So called because a large water tank serviced the immediate vicinity when houses were first built in the 1930s, the struggle for the Tank Field merits comparison with a John B Keane play.
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Teacher's Pet [Irish Times]
- Published: 20 October 2009
The talks for the revised Programme for Government underlined the lobbying power of the three teacher unions. All three unions' leaders were closely involved in virtually every stage of the discussions on the education plan.
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McCarthy report clears way for a renegotiation of teaching contracts [Irish Times]
- Published: 20 October 2009
We have a school system where teachers are seldom assessed, excellence goes unrewarded, mediocrity is tolerated, and the indolent find sanctuary. It is high time for a new teaching contract, writes the former president of UL, DR EDWARD WALSH
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