Week in Review

 

Higher & Further Education News & Views

Surprise at decision to invest €40m in St Patrick’s teacher training college

Europe’s top ten MBA schools favoured by employers

In My Opinion: First-year students entering third level have been taught to learn — not to reason

Trinity encourages kids from all social groups to aim high

 

Disability Headlines

‘The HSE is denying me a proper way of life’

Hopes are high after ‘bionic ear’ op

Scientists developing device to restore sight

BAI new rules on subtitling criticised

Disability benefits to be slashed (UK)

 

General Education Stories

Cyber-bullying concerns Quinn

School which expelled pupils over abusive Facebook posts won’t comment

Time to end silent suffering of gay students

End meritocracy myth and drop subsidies to fee-paying schools

Protestant schools ‘weary’ following cuts, synod is told

Forum to hear ideas on better ways to tackle school bullying

50% of parents have complained to school about bullying

Bullying ‘costs over €100m every year’

How to survive exam fever — a guide for anxious parents

Quarter of pupils have experienced web abuse

School faced dilemma over pupil expulsions

Parents’ council head resigns over Facebook expulsions row

Teachers know social media can be both friend and foe

 

Mental Health in the Media

Mental health survey – Listen to Irish youth

Lynch affirms commitment to mental health strategy

Senator hopes to inform efforts to combat suicide

One in five youths engage inself-harm

 

Employment Features

The Benefits of Disability in the Workplace

Rehab expansion to create 400 jobs

 

Week in Review

Pick of the week:

Reading, writing and washing-up

 

TED Talk:

Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do

 

Higher & Further Education News & Views

NUI draft charter on human rights welcomed

Why Bahraini human rights matter in Dublin

Funding cuts force closure of college creches

Major science forum for Dublin

A key to Cork’s educational past turns up after 100 years

Ireland ranks 16th for higher education

 

Disability Headlines

Major delay in assessing disabled children

New MS oral drug still not available

McKillop sets the trend with world record

Ten NI Paralympic hopefuls in contention for London

A robot, a song and a royal visit: big plans for Joanne O’Riordan

Captain Courage: Amputee Football Association of Ireland

Festival Announced Assisted Performances

 

General Education Stories

Review says Department of Education has ‘no sense of the bigger vision’

Time we relied on our own expertise

Sixteen and pregnant: what’s a school to do?

A pioneering approach to development

 

Mental Health in the Media

Pieta House reports rise in young people seeking help

Drawing away depression

Higher risk of schizophrenia for teenage cannabis users

Mental health services allowed to ‘go into freefall’

Mental health service cutbacks leading to suicides, nurses’ conference hears

 

Employment Features

Further 1,000 places to be added to JobBridge scheme

Is the Government jobs initiative a bridge to nowhere?

 

Week in Review

Ted Talk

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

 

Higher & Further Education News & Views

• Quinn says no to ‘narrow focus’ on university performance
• College staff’s children educated for free
• DCU president seeks ‘coherence’ in Irish education
• The bleak future of the Irish university
• Trinity College ordered to reinstate axed staff

Disability Headlines

• Serving a market that business can’t ignore
• Bionic ear activated
• Calum hears his family with ‘bionic ear’
• HSE spends €500k in mid-west on wheelchairs
• Hope for blindness cure as eye implant trials successful
• Diabetes: Ian Dempsey on his life sentence

 

General Education Stories

• Majority prefers schools not run by church
• Mum demands Catholic education for son
• Big changes in elearning sphere
• ASTI concerns about JC reform
• Loreto has brush with success as 11 students go to art college
• It’s crunch time for medical and vocational students
• In My Opinion: Young people deserve better than lazy cuts to frontline services in our schools
• Teen mum ‘ashamed’ after school principal turned her away
• iPads for pupils hit parents but they won’t need books
• Training of teachers in 22 colleges is excessive and wasteful, says Quinn
• Under-performing teachers could be blocked from working again
• Parents welcome power to remove bad teachers
• Prize-winning schoolgirls take quantum leap from babies’ bottoms to dairy cows’ udders
• Quinn says Chinese will be offered as Leaving Cert subject
• Green is the colour for award-winning students

 

Mental Health in the Media

• Former chairman seeks investigation into mental health organisation
• Talking the talk

 

Employment Features

Hundreds more jobs on way for tech sector

 

Week in Review

Staff Picks:

Technology and Me! Speech by Joanne O’Riordan

Me and my shadow: all in a day’s work experience

 

Higher & Further Education News & Views

Call for colleges to be ‘unshackled’

Review of teacher training to back ‘institutes of education’

High Court dismisses students’ appeal against third-level grant reforms

New body sees value of research

No teaching, but the work goes on

Trinity newspaper scoops top prize in national competition

Fees for science courses should be scrapped — CEO

UL student scoops journalism prize for coroners expose

 

Disability Headlines

Access website gives better service to Ballymena’s disabled people

Taoiseach denies Government targeting autistic children

Father pleads for U-turn on SNAs

Training the brain to be alert

Charity to raise funds for autistic children

Niamh’s work for autism to be honoured by star

Cian takes heckling TDs in his stride and leaves Kenny in his shadow

Joanne hopes UN speech inspires people to believe they can achieve

Lise Hand: Beyond a ‘shadow’ of doubt, Cian makes Enda’s day

McDonagh aiming to trade silver for gold this time

Cork teen calls for robot technology

 

General Education Stories

Training teachers the Catholic way

Bullying in schools

Why the school patronage report is doomed to fail

Over 200 schools to keep teachers

Group: Primary schools face threat of ‘drip, drip’ closure despite U-turn

Should pupils get points for playing football and lifting weights?

Two thirds of schoolchildren ‘not getting enough sleep’

 

Mental Health in the Media

Walking back to happiness as odd shoes worn to support mental health

Clare ‘needs suicide intervention centre’

 

Employment Features

Boost for graduates with new jobs