What has the enactment of the Technological University legislation in March 2018 which allows for institutes of technology to apply for university status in Ireland to do with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump? That is a question that David Goodhart in his latest book ‘Head, Hand, Heart’ does not pose but points toward […]
The most galling thing about all of this, of course, is that it is happening because neither parents nor students truly understand the exam system as it is.
And how the evidence proves it.
A body representing Irish businesses has claimed that many Irish Leaving Cert graduates are unable to perform “simple tasks,” and cannot write a paragraph of text without making significant grammar and spelling errors. The remarks were made this week by the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association (ISME) while speaking to the Oireachtas Education Committee […]
A majority of opposition parties in the Dáil, with the exception of Aontú and the Rural Independent Group, have united to severely limit the rights of Catholic and denominational schools and to support the Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021 brought forward by the Social Democrats. The Private Members Bill would prohibit […]
The evidence would tend to suggest that “schools are safe” was always nonsense. If they were safe, after all, schools would never have been closed when they were, for as long as they were. The phrase was developed solely and only to make people feel safer about re-opening them.
Norma Foley’s response to Darina Allen’s campaign shows the same lack of coherence we get from Eamon Ryan
The remarks were made yesterday during a discussion on child safeguarding in Irish schools.
In Confucian ethics, social harmony ultimately relies on virtuous citizens rather than sophisticated institutions.
Name-calling, exclusion and feeling ignored
There should be no particular mystery about why it is, this year, that the number of leaving cert students who achieved maximum points absolutely skyrocketed: Here is the share of Leaving Certificate candidates with maximum CAO points since 1995. In that year, 31 candidates (0.05%) had maximum points. In 2020, 577 candidates (1.0%) had maximum […]
Being in with elite has served her well