Description:

The Yearbook is a comprehensive digest of education news as reported in the media in Ireland. It opens with a foreword from Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe, followed by an insightful overview of the year by well-known guidance counsellor, writer and commentator, Brian Mooney.

There are:

• Further overviews by top educationalists from each level of education, from Early Childhood to Fourth Level;
• Profiles of key people who have been making an important contribution to education in Ireland;
• Human interest stories;
• Reports on research; 
• Occasional reports on groundbreaking activities in other countries.

This third edition of Education Matters Yearbook covers the academic year
2007-8. It provides a permanent record of the major developments, innovations and emerging trends in Ireland during that period and seeks to capture the mood within education over the past year – including the anger, the frustrations, the aspirations, and the indomitable fighting spirit of Irish educators.

This chronicle of education news in Ireland in 2007-8 is a unique information resource, and a handy reference point, for all those involved or interested in Irish education.

Aimed at:

• Principals 
• Teachers 
• Lecturers in Education 
• University and Third Level Personnel 
• Planners and Policy Makers 
• Parents
• Interested students

Description:

This unique annual publication, now in its second year, will be of interest to every principal, teacher and lecturer in the country, and also to committed parents, and indeed to everyone who is involved in any way in the education system.

The Education Yearbook, the only one of its kind in Ireland,

• captures the mood of the last academic year
• records the important events and news stories
• photographs many familiar and not-so-familiar faces from Irish education
• analyses important issues
• profiles key people.  

It is a well-presented, 300-page, full-colour book, to be browsed and enjoyed and also to be read in depth, and to be retained for reference in future months and years. The Foreword is by Minister Mary Hanafin and sections include:

• Emerging Trends
• Management Issues
• School Issues
• Teacher Issues
• Union Issues
• Third Level
• Fourth Level
• Technology
• Student Issues
• Parent Issues
• Early Childhood.

You can purchase the book online OR by sending a cheque for €30 (to include packing and postage) to:
Education Matters, 47 Watson Avenue, Killiney, Co. Dublin.

You will receive your purchased copies by post within 3-5 days.

If you require further information, please email info@educationmatters.ie.

Description:

A well-presented, 200-page, full-colour book which will prove an invaluable resource for anyone involved in Irish Education. The first of its kind in Ireland and published for the first time in 2006, it captures the mood of education in Ireland in the previous academic year by recording the main education news stories, analysing important issues, profiling key people and photographing familiar and not-so-familiar faces in the education scene. The Foreword is by Minister for Education & Science Mary Hanafin and the book includes up to 30 contributions from top educationalists.

To be browsed and enjoyed or read in depth, and retained for future reference. An indispensable read for school managers, principals, education planners and policy makers, and researchers. Of great interest to educators at all levels from early childhood through to university and beyond, and to parents. Will be enjoyed by everyone with an interest in education.