Graduates given initiative to drive exports for Irish host companies [irishtimes.com]
- Published: 08 August 2011
Graduates given initiative to drive exports for Irish host companies
Enterprise Ireland’s new graduate programme is placing 50 graduates abroad this month
YOU WON’T face a grouchy Sir Alan Sugar or have to nominate your colleagues for the sack, but Enterprise Ireland’s new apprentice-style graduate recruitment programme might just get you hired.
With the Union of Students in Ireland bemoaning a “lost generation”, with 1,000 people forced to leave Ireland every week, and a glut of recent TV programmes tracking their tearful exodus at the departure gates, it’s enough to give emigration a bad name.
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How school trip prices have parents fuming [independent.ie]
- Published: 08 August 2011
How school trip prices have parents fuming
Of all the potential costs incurred by parents through the course of the school year, school trips or outings are among those most likely to catch them out.
According to a recent survey, commissioned by the National Consumer Agency, almost half of the parents (49pc) asked have previously had to make an unforeseen payment in relation to costs for the new school year. For almost three in five of the group, this unforeseen or unexpected cost was in relation to school trips or outings. Most schools will organise school trips or outings of some kind or another, but many parents and teachers are openly wondering whether the more expensive overseas trips are worth it, particularly in today's economic climate.
Full Story: www.independent.ie
Calls for marking state exams to be part of teachers’ jobs [thejournal.ie]
- Published: 08 August 2011
Calls for marking state exams to be part of teachers’ jobs
THERE ARE CALLS for the bonus payments attached to supervising and marking state examination papers to be reviewed.
The Irish Daily Mail (print edition) reports that up to €30 million is being paid to teachers for supervising and marking exams, with nearly 9,000 teachers a year taking part.
Full Story: www.thejournal.ie
Government may consider removing extra teacher payments [newstalk.ie]
- Published: 08 August 2011
Government may consider removing extra teacher payments
It is thought the government may be considering getting rid of many bonus payments for teachers.
It has emerged up to €30 million a year is being paid out for teachers to supervise the State examinations and mark the papers.
A number of TDs are arguing that these duties should be apart of the annual teacher salary.
Full Story: www.newstalk.ie
It's the children who matter, and only the children [independent.ie]
- Published: 07 August 2011
It's the children who matter, and only the children
Everybody agrees that ethical and social issues have to have "bottom lines". But those bottom lines get very blurred when it comes to the mandatory reporting of actual or suspected child abuse. Let's remember that the services are "overburdened". Let's remember that even a suspected abuser has civil and legal rights. Let's remember; let's keep saying "but" when it's suggested that a person should be criminalised for failing to report the neglect, abuse, or torture of a helpless child.
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