Posted in Administration, Policy on Nov 28th, 2010
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy
On this programme Barry spoke to Jukka Pekkarinen an economist and politician from Finland about what lessons Ireland could take from their recession with regard to protecting spending on education.
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Posted in College Entry, Third Level on Nov 13th, 2010
Presented and produced by Sean Delaney
This programme featured an interview with Muiris O'Connor from the Higher Education Authority about the Authority's Study of Progression in Irish Higher Education. Muiris explained why, on average, 15% of students who begin college will not be there a year later.
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Presented and produced by Sean Delaney
The featured interview this week was with Professor Gretchen Butera of Indiana University's School of Education. The School recently designed a new special education programme for teachers. In the programme she describes the process including the rationale and some of the challenges experienced.
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Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This programme is about Dublin-based activities to mark NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November.
With regard to the Dublin region:
*There are 240 Wrimos - 60% are new to NaNoWriMo
*2.07% of Wrimos in this region have donated 55.00 so far
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