The Late Late Show did a section on enterprise and innovation on friday night. Dragon’s Den duo Sean Gallagher & Gavan Duffy were on board and spoke of the importance of innovation and job creation by Irish people during times of economic recession as well as encouraging enterprise education in schools. Well worth a watch by clicking this link!

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Today was my first Exam Village experience. To those who didn’t catch my last blog on them, Exam Village provide online tuition for Irish students. It’s a great opportunity for those who can’t for whatever reason make it to school or want strengthen subject areas from the comfort of their home. It is not an [...]

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Hey, Just back from a week in Kerry. Amazing county, with great sights. Back in college teaching today. A lot has happened during the week, most notably the teaching conferences and Mary Coughlans first exposure to her new role. I’ll be touching on that, the developments with Exam Village online tutorials and questioning whether certain secondary teachers [...]

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While completing my PGCE in the UK we’d been told about an initiative which could involve any potential interviews being supported by students. This week NASUWT, the major teaching union in the UK published its criticism of the campaign claiming it is “littered with examples of demeaning, embarrassing and humiliating practice”. The most extreme case is of [...]

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I spoke with a close friend last night who informed me that her school is using HDip students to fill vacant substitute positions in the school. After much criticism regarding schools decisions to hire retired teachers to such positions one can only wonder what the new minister for education would make of such actions. I [...]

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