Archive for October 2006

Training Grants for Teachers

Training Grants are available to teachers under Comenius 2.2

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How to handle complaints from parents

Suggestions taken from How to Handle Difficult Parents by former teacher Suzanne Capek Tingley

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Website for teaching English as a Second Language

This website provides teachers with thousands of ideas and materials for teaching English as a second language

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Music Teachers' Open Evening

The Contemporary Music Centre will host an open evening for music teachers on Thursday 26 October

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Resource to inform students about medicines

As students get older they will have to make decisions about medicines and will need to communicate with doctors

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The Education Revolution : video games

The Federation of American Scientists has called it the next great discovery

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The no-desk movement is spreading across America

More and more teachers are getting rid of that epicentre of teacher power – the desk

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Free unstructured play is essential for children

New report stresses the importance of free play and unscheduled time for healthy development of children

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Early childhood educators - not child minders

Parents of children attending Montessori schools are cautioned to ensure that the schools are registered

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Chinese university makes golf compulsory

Golf is to be made compulsory for students at Airmen University in China's south-eastern Fijian province

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Call for abolition of third-level part-time fees

Part-time students should not have to pay, just as full-time students do not, the HEA said

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University of Limerick receives massive grant

UL has received a grant of €4.34 million from the Science Foundation of Ireland for its maths research programme

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Robinsons bequeath home and studio to NUI Galway

Cartographer Tim Robinson and his wife Máiréad have left their seafront house in Roundstone to Galway University

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Full-face veil seen as a barrier to communication

Aishah Azmi, 23-year-old married mother-of-one, was not wearing a veil when she attended for interview

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Website broadcasts teachers' worst moments

Can you imagine having your worst moments in the classroom video-taped and broadcast to the world!

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UCD Smurfit School in top 40 in the world

UCD Smurfit School has been ranked among the top 13 European business schools, and thirty-eighth in the world

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Institutes of Technology seek university status

Dublin Institute of Technology is once again seeking university status under Section 9 of the 1997 Universities Act

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UCC takes a lead 'in the context of the peace process'

Felim O hAdhmaill, released from prison under the Good Friday agreement, has secured a job as social policy lecturer

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Guidelines on teaching English in all-Irish schools

New guidelines on the teaching of English in Gaelscoileanna and in Gaeltacht schools are being drawn up

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Anger over proposed closure of Galway school

The board of management of Seamount College in Kinvara, Co Galway, has strongly criticised the Mercy Order trustees

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