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	<title>Education Matters</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hibernia College provides lifeline for aspiring teachers</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/09/hibernia-college-throws-lifeline-to-wannabe-teachers/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[His parents were teachers and he wanted to be a teacher, but he became an engineer because he was strong in maths and it seemed to make sense.]]></description>
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		<title>Can schools do without Special Needs Assistants?</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/09/can-schools-do-without-special-needs-assistants/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Special Needs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The culling of Special Needs Assistant posts, underway since January, will gain further impetus in March with the completion of a government review.]]></description>
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		<title>Renewed strength for USI</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/09/renewed-strength-for-usi/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has extended a delighted welcome back into its organization to students at National University of Ireland Maynooth. ]]></description>
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		<title>An Gúm: Leabhair nua do Pháistí</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/09/an-gum-leabhair-nua-do-phaisti/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stíl saintréitheach á cleachtadh ag Laoise Ní Chomhraí agus Lára Nic Oireachtaigh, údair na leabhar nua seo do pháistí.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Science - Towards a Healthy Future&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/09/science-%e2%80%93-towards-a-healthy-future/</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The annual conference of the Irish Science Teachers Association (ISTA) will take place at IT Sligo, 19-21 March. Keynote speaker Prof Frank Gannon.]]></description>
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		<title>Special tuition in English essential for newcomer pupils</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/08/newcomer-pupils-need-extra-special-tuition-in-english/</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Provision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The number of Language Support teachers in primary schools has dropped from 1620 last year to 1182 this year, Minister Batt O'Keeffe has admitted.]]></description>
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		<title>Courses in Swahili now available in Dublin</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/07/courses-in-swahili-now-available-in-dublin/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Issues]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Parent Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From March 4, the Dublin Swahili Institute will begin delivering classes in Swahili at the Carmelite Community Centre, 56 Aungier Street, Dublin 2.]]></description>
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		<title>Efforts being made to divert middle-management disaster</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/07/efforts-to-divert-middle-management-disaster/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Teacher Issues]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Union Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Talks are taking place between the Departments of Education and Finance, in an effort to pre-empt an "inoperable" situation in schools in September.]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Conversation Circle for TDs and Senators</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/07/irish-conversation-circle-for-tds-and-senators/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Irish Language]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On March 4, Senators and TDs from all political parties were in attendance at Conradh na Gaeilge's first Irish conversation circle in Leinster House.]]></description>
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		<title>Children under six not legally required to attend school</title>
		<link>http://www.educationmatters.ie/2010/03/07/children-under-six-not-legally-required-to-attend-school/</link>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010</pubDate>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dublin principal has called for an amendment to current legislation to give the NEWB power to intervene in cases of absenteeism of under-sixes. ]]></description>
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