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Thursday, Apr 29th 2010


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A Litany of Abuse, Abuse, Abuse – Part 1

Update: Simon McGarr of the Tuppenceworth.ie blog has set up a Facebook group to argue for the diplomatic expulsion of the Papal Nuncio from Ireland. He also provides two sample letters to send to either Ministers or TDs about this affair. Here is a PDF copy of the sample letters which you can amend  [...]

What Price Education?

“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care structures will be affected”
Principal, boys’ secondary school, Leinster
The Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) has published a report into [...]

Against Commercialism in Irish Education

Since we have not reached the level of commercialism in our schools that pervade an education system such as the American one, perhaps now is the time to begin the fight against the commercialism that is present, before it becomes too much to be countered.
During the last academic year, I responded to Tesco’s “Computers for [...]