Inside View

Behind the scenes with @YMTfm and the Irish Minister for Education

YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE the courage on both sides of an recorded interview when it happens during Feilte, the annual Teaching Council of Ireland Conference in Ireland. This morning, Minister for Education Richard Bruton sat in the hot s...

Feilte with Minister Bruton

Education 2.0 after oeb08

ONE WEEK AFTER Online Educa Berlin wrapped up for me, I'm still mulling over challenges I did not address at that well-attended conference. Specifically, I spent time looking at ways to enhance the top end of our curriculum, not the low-...

A Good Job for a Blended Educator #jobfairy

Bernie Goldbach in Limerick | Photo of young teacher. I SPENT SOME very productive years developing curriculum items for a blended education programme delivered to an international audience and noticed a job opening in the same space he...

Trying to Stay in Mainstream Education

I HELPED DYLAN (11) explain to a room of teachers what he has to do in order to stay in mainstream education. Dylan has used speech and language services for more than six years as he tries to compensate for issues related to his visio...

30 days to ictedu says its blog

I HAVE A WEB ALERT set up for the term ictedu and today the notification says we're within 30 days of the annual ICT in Education Conference on the Thurles campus of the Technological University of the Shannon.

Americans Attending Irish Schools

Bernie Goldbach in Cashel | Image of Claddagh School AMERICANS THINKING ABOUT attending Irish schools, colleges and universities need to think about whether the fees they pay to the Irish Department of Education and Science are sending t...

Room for growth in education services

IRISH TIMES -- Eoin O'Driscoll, the chairman of the Enterprise Strategy Group, believes there are "very significant opportunities" for Irish companies in the area of services. In an interview with The Irish Times, he described the "inter...

10 Things Learned at EdTech 2006

AS AN EDUCATION professional, well-orchestrated events like EdTech 2006 appeal to me. Anyone who attends one of the annual ILTA conferences leaves with their head feeling like a sponge. I did too so to drain out the excess information, I...

Five Years Waiting

FIVE YEARS AGO, I stepped over several ruts cut into the streets of Kilkenny on the day that Noel Dempsey, the Minister for Education and Science, announced plans for €18 million worth of fibre connectivity. The money was spent in Kilken...

New Irish Third Level League Table Emerging

Photo of Chinese students in Tipperary by @topgold. THE IRISH HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY plans to publish "data to compare third-level bodies", explains Dick Ahlstrom in the Irish Times. "The performance of each of Ireland's third-level...