The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System.Read the full newsletter here Back to school brought another perennial story – large class sizes. I spoke to Anton Savage who was covering for Pat Kenny about the subject. I gave the subject my own take and refused to use the term supersized classes. As … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System.Read the full newsletter here It wouldn’t be the summer holidays in Ireland if there weren’t stories about lack of school places and lack of school buses, and this year didn’t disappoint. However, what there is a lack of is interesting stories about education itself. No, instead … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System.Read the full newsletter here I’ve been mostly thinking about Special Education since I wrote to you the last time. As some of you know, my school was cut 15 hours per week of SET Allocations despite no real change to our circumstances. If you ask … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System.Read the full newsletter here It must be coming to the end of the school year because it’s time for silly season, otherwise known as June-itis. Darina Allen has her annual rant on the airwaves where she believes schools should be teaching cooking, despite … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System.Read the full newsletter here It’s been a reasonably quiet fortnight in the world of the media and primary education as it shifts its gaze to hyping up everyone involved in the Leaving Cert, (with this thoughtful exception), but all going to plan, we’re … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System. Read the full newsletter here With a lot of fearmongering in Ireland around RSE, it seems the UK has responded by making almost no change to their sex education programme and pretending they have. Speaking of not copying the UK, despite spending the last 20 … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System. Read the full newsletter here I was on the radio a few times in the last couple of weeks. I found myself discussing the removal of complex needs as a criteria for allocating support hours yet again but there seems to be no movement on … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System. Read the full newsletter here A post I made on X got me a radio interview on Cork’s 96FM, where I spoke about multi-denominational education with PJ Coogan. It made a nice change to talk about something I feel passionate about on the radio. Even so, … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System. Read the full newsletter here The Press Release people in the Department of Education were busy writing to every local paper in the country as each one congratulated their local TD on securing funding for ICT for their school. They all followed the … Read more
The Anseo.net Newsletter features my thoughts on the Irish Primary Education System. Read the full newsletter here I spoke to Pat Kenny about research from the INTO where over 60% of teachers reported physical aggression from pupils. The AON debacle is rearing its ugly head again as the IPPN gives off confusing messages about Special Needs Education. … Read more