Inside Education on 103.2 Dublin City FM

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney

News roundup by Barry Hennessy

The guest on the programme was John Heffernan from the National Centre for Technology in Education. John is a qualified history teacher and a member of the Computer Education Society of Ireland Executive.

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News roundup and events noticeboard by Barry Hennessy

The guest on the programme this week was Professor Colm Harmon who is the Director of the Geary Institute in University College Dublin. You can follow their blog at this link.

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News Interview by Barry Hennessy

Claire Bourgeois, the Director of the Alliance Francaise in Dublin was the featured guest on this week’s programme. You can determine your level of French by taking the placement test at this link.

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Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. The guest on this week’s Inside Education was Professor Ed Pajak from the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He spoke about the portrayal of teachers in movies.

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News analysis by Barry Hennessy

The guest on this week’s programme was Joan Kiely, a senior lecturer in early childhood education in Coláiste Mhuire, Marino Institute of Education.

School inspection reports published by the Department of Education and Skills can be viewed at this link.

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News Report by Barry Hennessy

This programme features interviews with teachers and pupils who participated in a project to highlight the importance of post-primary and college education for children attending primary schools in Dublin’s Docklands. The programme is organised by the Early Learning Initiative at the National College of Ireland. The coordinator of the project is Dr. Josephine Bleach.

Barry reported on problems in the Junior Certificate Business Studies exam paper.

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News Interview by Barry Hennessy

This week’s programme featured interviews with Nellie Torres and Ronan Maher to coincide with the Cluas conference on Unlocking Speech and Language Difficulties. The Cluas centre uses a specific therapy, the Tomatis method, to support children with developmental delays, especially delays in speech and language.

Barry interviewed Conor Ryan about the proposed abolition of the General Teaching Council in England and about academy schools in the United Kingdom.

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News roundup by Barry Hennessy

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On this week’s programme Maria Doyle, the Principal of Our Lady of Mercy Senior National School in Waterford City and a member of the Executive Committee of the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN), gives advice to primary teachers who are applying for jobs. The IPPN runs the website educationposts.ie. We also hear from the Principal of Balbriggan Educate Together National School, Fintan McCutcheon, who wrote on his blog about how the Student Council in the school were involved in developing criteria for appointing new teachers in the school.

Barry reports on the planned abolition of the General Teaching Council in England. He also describes changes made by the State Examinations Commission to avoid a repeat of the security breach that caused problems in last year’s Leaving Certificate Exam.

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News roundup by Barry Hennessy

In this programme John Carr outlines how the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation influenced education policy over the last two decades. He also summarises the achievements and regrets of his time as General Secretary of the Organisation.

Barry speaks to Judith Cosgrove of the Educational Research Centre about a report into early school leaving by Irish teenagers

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News roundup by Barry Hennessy

This programme features the first of a two-part interview with the recently retired General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), John Carr. In the interview he talks about his days as a teacher and principal in Belgrove National School in Clontarf.

Barry provides an analysis of the results of the teachers’ ballots on the Croke Park agreement. He also discusses the proposal by the ASTI to provide an internship in schools for beginning post-primary teachers.

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