ILSA Annual Conference 2009 [ ILSA]
- Published: 15 September 2009
Venue: St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin
Date: September 18th & 19th
To view conference programme timetable click here.
Full Article: http://www.ilsa.ie/
Learning to lead [leadermagazine.co.uk]
- Published: 15 September 2009
Secondary school or college is the perfect time for students to develop their leadership skills, believes Katy Granville-Chapman, who runs the leadership programme at Wellington College. She focuses on eight tangible aspects of leadership development.
Leadership is a difficult concept to define, but most of us would share a consensus of its key ingredients. Most would also acknowledge that it can be both innate and developed, but that all students have the capacity to improve their skills.
School or college is the perfect time for students to practise leadership: it is a safe environment where the consequences of mistakes are fairly benign and positive support is always readily available.
Full Article: http://www.leadermagazine.co.uk/
The school that makes sure no one gets left behind [Guardian.co.uk]
- Published: 15 September 2009
Shirley Robins, head of the effective learning centre, with Colin Wheeler, 14, who has excelled with the school's support. Photograph: Jim Wileman
No child leaves Treviglas community college in Newquay as a neet (not in employment, education or training). Headteacher Helen Mathieson simply doesn't allow it. Her school - the only 11-18 institution in Cornwall to be graded as "outstanding" by Ofsted, up from "satisfactory" just three years ago, she tells me - is "almost messianic" in its belief that every child should succeed.
"When I arrived here as a junior teacher in 1987, a careers adviser said: 'Oh no, Treviglas children don't go to college'. I found - still find - that shocking. There is no reason why any child shouldn't reach their potential," she says with absolute conviction.
For a college in a deprived area of Cornwall to become a no-neet zone is something of a triumph given the current national context. Last week, a report on educational trends by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showed that young people in the UK drop out of education, employment or training at a higher rate than in any OECD country apart from Italy, Mexico and Turkey.
Full Story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Revision time for the CAO [Independent.ie]
- Published: 14 September 2009
THE CAO points system for college entry has come under attack from Government education advisers.
Its "one-size-fits-all" approach does not suit all students, according to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). The council, which advises Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe on the primary and second-level curricula, say points have become a "negative force" in education
The NCCA makes its criticism in a submission to the National Strategy for Higher Education, which is drawing up a blueprint for third-level into the future. The council says that the time has come for third-level colleges to consider new forms of recognition of learner achievement.
Full Story: http://www.independent.ie/
Information Meetings Start Tonight [INTO]
- Published: 14 September 2009
The CEC has decided to hold a series of information meetings for principals, deputy principals, INTO staff representatives and INTO officers.
The meetings will cover:
- McCarthy Report proposals and the economic situation.
- Moratorium on promotion and staffing.
- CEC plan of action.
All principals, deputy principals and INTO staff representatives are encouraged to attend their local meeting.
Given the unprecedented challenges facing us in the year ahead, it is vital that members are as informed as possible of on-going developments.
Full Story: http://www.into.ie/
