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Part 5 of Access Undone: The Collapse of Special Education attempts to enter the walls of the NCSE but as you’ll find out I don’t get very far.

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🎙 Latest episode of the podcast

💭 Education Stories over the last few weeks

𝕏 Interesting Posts on X

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Latest Podcast Episode

In this episode, I try to get a look into the inner workings of the NCSE. As you’ll probably note from the length of this episode, I didn’t get very far.

However, as I was writing this episode, something happened. The NCSE announced new guidelines for allocating resources. Perhaps our next episode will spark some positivity?

The General Election has finally been called and Norma Foley’s first announcement was a significant €9m investment into primary school resources. As Conor Murphy noted, this is in contrast to the tiny fraction of the budget held for phone pouches, which cost….€9m.

We can expect lots of articles in newspapers over the next few weeks, all about how great the current government is. For example, half the local papers in the country were happy to share the news that solar panels will be installed in schools. While it is welcome news, no matter the size of the school, they’ll get the same number of panels.

Of course, the only story about education and the General Election is that schools will close for the day. Yep…priorities.

Norma Foley is getting into a bit of hot water over her phone pouch plan when it was revealed it’s going to need a regular €2m top up every year. Meanwhile, Australia is doing something meaningful by banning social media for under-16s. That’s an actual investment in wellbeing, and it will cost nothing.

Finally, for those of you wondering if it’s just you thinking that parents are becoming more challenging since the pandemic, you’re not alone.

Here are some posts on X that caught my eye:

• Cillian Murphy explains why faith is a private thing (via @kittyatdawn)
• Why we use first names in Educate Together schools (via @educatetogether)
• Colm O’Gorman outlines the things the Catholic Church opposed (via @Colmogorman)
• What exactly does native Irish mean? (via @NewstalkFM)
• The Simpsons introduction…. in real life! (via @schuld_eth)

I really like Canva and I’ve been playing around with its video making facilities. In this tutorial I show you how to make a very simple 30 second acrostic poem video.

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