Internationally acclaimed director, Judy Hegarty Lovett, has travelled extensively with her Samuel Beckett productions, earning praise and accolades everywhere from Ankara to Athens, from Shanghai to Zurich.

National Learning Network will hold a half-day training event on Consistency Between Assessors of FETAC Courses on Friday, 11 April.

TUI gerneral secretary, Peter MacMenamin, is determined to persuade that education spending is the springboard for economic and social progress.

“Benchmarking is a failed process… Trade unions have been out-manoeuvred by Government and employers. We need to learn from our failures.”

“It is frequently said of our society that we are asset rich but time poor. Whatever about asset rich, most teachers and lecturers are time poor.”

“The economy is changing, moving up the value chain away from traditional manufacturing and towards more knowledge-intensive employment.”

Reports indicate that, while other teacher unions were warning of industrial action, the ASTI was holding fire at this year’s annual convention.

Speaking in the Malton Hotel, Killarney, on 25 March 2008, Minister Mary Hanafin told her audience that teacher quality is the most important factor.

“We need a Minister who will step up to the mark and bring about necessary change in priority funding. Minister, I believe you have that courage.”

“When we celebrate next year the centenary of the founding of the ASTI, we can be proud that we, as teachers, have delivered a quality education.”

Attempts by Minister Mary Hanafin to explain why she had to break so many of the promises she made before and after the general election fell on deaf ears.

“I have visited 400 schools and have seen how teachers shape the skills, life chances and values of young people. No other profession has as much impact.”

Speech by John Carr, General Secretary INTO, in response to Minister Mary Hanafin, at Annual Congress 2008 in Hotel Kilkenny on 25 March.

“I believe that the classroom teacher, who is the foundation stone of the primary education system, is being left behind in the education debate.”

A school district in Los Angeles is taking concrete steps to transform its 29 principals into instructional leaders rather than managers of school buildings.

A British teachers’ union warns about the numbers of ’spoilt’ children who misbehave in class because they are used to doing only what they want.

Splancaithe, a group of musicians from Laurel Hill College, Limerick, scooped the Grand Prix at the national talent competition, Scleip 2008.

The next meeting of the INTO lgb (lesbian, gay, bisexual) teachers group will be on Saturday, April 26, in Dublin.

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