The one-day conference will bring together key international thinkers and actors who have transformed disability policy and service provision.

The National Parents Council Primary Education Conference 2011 will take place on June 11 at National College of Ireland, Mayor St, Dublin 1.

The fifth International Seminar on John McGahern, commemorating the work of the renowned Irish writer, will take place from 21-23 July in Co Leitrim.

During his meeting with Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Oval Office on St Patrick’s Day, President Barack Obama said he would visit Ireland in May.

As a general election looms, members of the public are invited to a seminar on Irish language issues, organised by Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge.

Aspiring composers are invited to enter a contest created by Contemporary Music Centre in partnership with the West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

A workshop for all Guidance Counsellors interested in exploring the new REACH+ programme will be held at 2pm on May 11 at the Red Cow, Dublin.

Theatre company ‘Blackwater Projects’ has devised a series of workshops to help Leaving Cert students to tackle the exam question on Shakespeare.

The annual conference of the Irish Science Teachers Association (ISTA) will take place at IT Sligo, 19-21 March. Keynote speaker Prof Frank Gannon.

School Secretaries are invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of IMPACT School Secretaries’ Branch which will take place on February 27.

GAELSCOILEANNA TEO has announced dates for Scléip! 2010, the national talent competition for Irish-medium and Gaeltacht post-primary schools.

The Annual Conference of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL) takes place in TCD, 11-12 Nov.

Log on to a live web seminar – or webinar – hosted by Hibernia College on 7 July, at 1pm and 7 pm. To attend online you must register in advance…

The seminar will commemorate McGahern’s work and literary achievements, while the follow-on intensive Summer School will examine McGahern’s work.

This important seminar, which will highlight the research being carried out with the help of SFI funding, will be webcast live from Massachusetts.

The two-day conference will highlight the new challenges for equality between women and men, including the persisting gender pay gap.

The President of St Patrick’s College Drumcondra, in association with Poetry Ireland and Four Courts Press, announces the launch of ‘The Fire i’ the Flint’.

Guest speaker Prof Finbarr Bradley will address the commercial and economic value of the Irish Language at Conradh na Gaeilge Árd-Fheis.

The new Notre Dame Junior School in Churchtown, Dublin 14 will be officially opened on May 11 by Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin.

Marie Stubbs, the former headmistress who led a team in building one of Britain’s most difficult schools, will be speaking in Dublin on May 14.