An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Tuesday Dec 21, 2010
Tuesday Dec 21, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News report and analysis by Barry Hennessy The guest on this week's programme was Dr. Michael Flannery who is a senior lecturer with responsibility for the visual arts in Marino Institute of Education, Dublin. The news includes Barry Hennessy's analysis of the 2009 PISA results and the Government's education budget for 2011.
Monday Dec 20, 2010
Monday Dec 20, 2010
The guests on this week's programme were Noel Kelly who is on the management team of the Northside Partnership and non-fiction author David Shenk whose books include The Genius in All of Us, The Forgetting, Data Smog and The Immortal Game.
Tuesday Dec 07, 2010
Tuesday Dec 07, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney. News report by Barry Hennessy The featured guest on this programme was Professor Sylvia Draper, from Trinity College Dublin. She received an award for excellence in teaching from NAIRTL in 2008.
Sunday Nov 28, 2010
Sunday Nov 28, 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.
Saturday Nov 13, 2010
Saturday Nov 13, 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.
Saturday Nov 13, 2010
Saturday Nov 13, 2010
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.
Monday Nov 01, 2010
Monday Nov 01, 2010
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
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney The main guest on the programme was Steve Humble, aka Dr. Maths from the National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics. He shared with listeners a maths problem to solve. Barry Hennessy spoke to Peter Mullan from the Irish National Teachers' Organisation about the Education (Amendment) Bill 2010 and allowing non-teachers to be employed as teachers in schools.
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Tuesday Oct 26, 2010
Presented and produced by Barry Hennessy The main guest on the programme was Ms. Dipti Pandya, the Director of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Barry interviewed Larry Fleming from the Irish Primary Principals' Network about the place of homework in children's education at primary school.
Monday Oct 11, 2010
Monday Oct 11, 2010
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney News roundup by Barry Hennessy The special guest on this programme was Professor Timothy Shanahan from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was in Ireland as a guest of Young Ballymun and he presented a keynote address at the Reading Association of Ireland's Annual Conference.