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

The big news this week is that we have 10 paid work placement opportunities available in the AHEAD WAM Programme with Abbott Ireland and ESB. More info available here: http://www.ahead.ie/employment_wamprogramme_currentopportunities

 

Higher & Further Education News & Views

Getting it all down to a science

Splurging public money – VEC probe justified

 

Disability Headlines

Now brave Joanne to take on the world at UN event

Free cooking workshops for people with arthritis

Disability rights protesters bring Trafalgar Square traffic to a standstill

Autistic pupils failed by the system, say families

Louis Theroux – Extreme Love Documentary

 

General Education Stories

We’re not allowing for harsh realities

Heads down for the Junior Cert

Parents’ wishes count on denominational schools

Students set sights on big profits as cure for hoof rot grows legs

Will teachers be offered backhanders if they have to test pupils?

Minister backs graphic novel promoting emotional intelligence in teens

 

Mental Health in the Media

When conflicts of interest arise in medicine

Bitter pills to swallow

Kicking the stigma out of mental health

 

Employment Features

What Recruiters Look At During The 6 Seconds They Spend On Your Resume

Apple to create 500 jobs in Cork

 

Week in Review

Higher & Further Education News & Views

• A busy week in Aberdeen
• Eamon Delaney: Protesting students entitled to take on fat-cat academics
• Queens to open China college
• Postgraduates invited to apply for €10,000 bursary 

 

Disability Headlines

• New quality mark for disability access
• Beneath its obnoxious title, ‘The Undateables’ has a heart
• Irish Paralympian and classical singer Ronan Tynan to be awarded Ellis Island Medal of Honor
• Giving migraine its place at work

 

Mental Health in the Media

• New guidelines for suicide bereavement support published

 

Employment Features

• Harnessing the special skills of the ‘outliers’
• Autistic workers: loyal, talented … ignored

 

General Education Stories

• Labour bids to cut €90m subsidy for fee-paying schools
• Bishops oppose axeing class religion rule
• Church preparing historic handover of primary schools
• ‘Boarding school can be tough’
• A day in the life of a boarding school
• Your leaving cert: 57 days to go
• Ruairi Quinn vows to continue with schools shake-up to reflect ‘modern Ireland’
• Fee-paying students two years ahead in literacy
• Primary education on the cusp of historic change in school management
• Cuts blamed as top students turn away from teaching career
• Parents will ‘hand over money’ to teachers in hope of better grades

 

Teacher Conferences

• David McWilliams: Teachers need to learn hard lessons about pay
• Parents urged to fight cuts in guidance roles
• Fiach Kelly: Out of the frying pan … Quinn mauled by two unions in a day
• Ruairi Quinn warns teachers that rural schools are facing cuts
• Teachers threaten to go on strike if Government cuts their pay again
• ‘Decline in donations makes job impossible’
• New teachers in short-term posts ‘earn just €13k a year’
• TD ‘fuelling’ belief teachers are highly paid in allowances
• Quinn to tackle anti-gay discrimination
• Treatment of starting teachers ‘a disgrace’
• Minister rules out cuts to teacher allowances
• Support for mother of children with autism
• New literacy and numeracy tests could lead to primary school ‘league tables’
• Audit to assess best use of school resources
• Delegates hope cool reception teaches Quinn a lesson
• ASTI threat to leave Croke Park deal if allowances are cut
• Delegates vote for legal challenge to starting pay
• Audit of school facilities and staffing announced
• Quinn wants to keep some extra payments
• Quinn says he wants to remain in education
• Calls for full training to ensure pupil integration
• Survey finds schools will have lost five middle management teaching posts
• Career guidance ‘integral part of school’
• Plan for teacher-assessed Junior Cert exams opposed

 

Week in Review

Staff Picks:

• Is it time to switch off Facebook?
• Visual literacy of young neglected, says art expert
• President calls on students to innovate

 

Higher & Further Education News & Views

• Quinn criticises academics’ failure to accept pay cut
• Students call for Croke Park deal to be renegotiated
• Union leader says Minister ‘running scared’
• Students defer vote on whether to abandon ‘free fees’ stance
• We must work together to solve third level crises

 

Disability Headlines

• Patient brings challenge over detention at mental hospital
• ‘I’m only 38 . . . I could be so much more productive with the right treatment’
• Inclusion award for ‘Irish Examiner’ reporter
• Disability law needs rights basis, say groups
• Tracey McCann: I may not be able to speak but I still dream of being and actress
• Calum waits for bionic ear switch-on

 

Special Features on Autism to celebrate Autism Awareness Day

• Autism Awareness Day celebrated around Ireland
• Irish artist gets UN stamp of approval
• Autism: ‘My son doesn’t talk, but he speaks with his eyes’
• Time for a national autism strategy
• Autism by the numbers The disability explained
• Autism linked to older fathers

 

General Education Stories

• Poor test results are blamed on teen exam fatigue
• Quinn questions school emphasis on Irish, religion
• Clarification sought on VEC school patronage
• Over 60% of schools may drop subjects to cope with cuts

 

Mental Health in the Media

• Gary goes extra miles for mental health charity
• Rise in mental health admissions
• No more admissions to outdated asylums
• Under 5% of mental health facilities comply with all regulations

 

Employment Features

• What can the disabled workforce bring to your company?
• IT crisis: The €70k a year jobs we just can’t fill in Ireland

 

Week in Review

Staff Picks:

• How Mooney got it all wrong [A response to ‘Inside Third Level’]
• We need to talk about education
• Teacher’s Pet

Higher & Further Education News & Views

• Mass exodus of research graduates would provide a depressing counterpoint to our ambitions to develop a knowledge economy
• Time for a rethink
• History made as Irish student wins European innovation award
• President visits DIT Bolton Street on occasion of college’s 100th birthday

Disability Headlines

• School stalemate over assistance dog in classroom
• Urgent action needed for reform and protection of disabled children and adults
• Student to showcase aid which helps visually impaired ‘see’
• The blind cyclist
• Arthritis sufferers failing to manage condition

General Education Stories

• Anseo! How a new generation of gay teachers is fighting back
• Early childhood education by parents determines a student’s potential later on
• ‘Inappropriate’ for teachers to befriend pupils on Facebook – Quinn
• Parents launch anti-bullying group
• Bad behaviour in schools ‘fuelled by over-indulgent parents’

Mental Health in the Media

• Social network users advised to challenge perceptions
• Funeral orators urged not to glamorise suicide

 

 

Week in Review

Staff Picks:

Inside third level

Teachers must come from all sections of society

 

Higher & Further Education News & Views

Minister snubs key education reform plan

Where science meets business

Farmers battle college grant plans

IT Sligo appointment to Higher Education Authority Board

Flying the Galway flag in the US

CIT strike off after last-minute talks

Pupils pit wits against language puzzles

News diary from 1916 in DCU media history collection

Shakespeare scholars to defend the Bard

Students look past recession towards hi-tech horizons

CAO points scramble strategy doesn’t add up

New science chief is all fired up

 

Disability Headlines

Harsh cuts loom for the intellectually disabled but there is a smart option

Where the horses are the healers

Blue is the colour for World Autism Awareness Day

Duffy and soccer stars to saddle up and raise funds for autism

‘Macbeth’ to come to life for audience with sensory impairments

Let us have new MS treatment, plead sufferers

‘Without him my life wouldn’t be the same’

Teenage autism crusader leaves powerful legacy

General Education Stories

Strong differences persist over school patronage

More than 200 teenagers take part in triathlon as part of school year

Four questioned over violent incident at Ennis school

Pick up skills in lifelong learning week

Surge in uptake of higher-level LC maths

Project Maths is not the answer to tough question

Music helps children learn maths

 

Mental Health in the Media

‘Walk In My Shoes’ mental health drive

Lynch to meet group to discuss anti-depressants

Stars step up to support mental health campaign

Can Goldie Hawn make Irish children happier?

Debate on antidepressants needed

Rugby star O’Driscoll urges men to open up

 

Employment Features

50 leading social innovators to participate at Change Nation event

WAM (Willing Able Mentoring) Programme Briefing

 

LINK Conference 2012: Call for Papers

LINK Conference, Oct 4th 2012, Ghent: Call for Papers now open!

 

‘We can’t go back, not now!… Not now‘ (Tintin)

Firstly we are delighted to confirm that the LINK Conference 2012 will take place on October 4th 2012 in Ghent, Belgium.  The conference will address the topic of transition from higher education to work for students with disabilities and in particular will analyse the individual roles of students themselves, the higher education institutions and the employers.
Are you an academic, employer, policy maker or student with a disability and do you have a concern or some strong opinions about work and transition to work? We would like you to share your experiences. If you are interested in submitting a paper for presentation at the conference please download the full call for papers here and follow the instructions.

All proposals need to be submitted on a proposal submission form to contact@thelinknetwork.eu by April 15th 2012. Booking for the event will commence later in the year and we will be in touch to notify interested parties.
Don’t forget to spread the word and get your colleagues to become a LINK member free of charge by visiting www.thelinknetwork.eu.