Tagged: Leaving Certificate & News
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Ireland needs to nurture skills needs for digital world News
27.09.2011 TelecityGroup (Ireland), formerly Data Electronics, has a three-decade pedigree of supporting the data needs of Irish and global organisations. Managing director Maurice Mortell...Categories: Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital 21, Development, Data Centre -
Engineer leader lashes ‘total systemic failure’ of maths education News
15.09.2011 There has been a total systemic failure in the teaching of maths in Ireland, the new president of Engineers Ireland PJ Rudden said last night, and warned it may take a decade or...Categories: Science, Infrastructure Management, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital 21 -
New app provides easy access to past Leaving Cert papers News
24.08.2011 A Cork-based software developer has released a new app that provides easy access to past examination papers and marketing schemes for all Leaving Certificate subjects from 2001...Categories: Apps, Apps Zone, Education, Mobility, Software & Web Development, Wireless Communications -
Numbers still don’t add up for Leaving Cert maths and sciences News
17.08.2011 It’s a glass half-full, half-empty kind of picture. On the one hand, we can rejoice that the numbers of Irish students achieving A, B and C grades in high-level maths is at its... -
Meath VEC first second-level schools to go to the cloud News
13.06.2011 Meath VEC’s network of nine secondary schools have become Ireland’s first second-level institutions to deploy centrally managed cloud computing. -
Aural app now free for upcoming Junior and Leaving Cert exams News
25.05.2011 Online exam service mocks.ie has removed the charge for its Aural iPhone app, aimed to help Junior and Leaving Cert students revise for their listening exams. -
Irish Govt recognises cloud computing opportunity, minister says News
18.04.2011 Meath VEC has become the first educational body in Ireland to embrace cloud computing with its entire network of schools and education centres connected as a single online...Categories: Software & Web Development, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Government, Education, Cloud -
CAO.ie crash blamed on “malicious attack” News
23.08.2010 As school leavers tried to access the CAO.ie website this morning many found that the website was inaccessible, with errors messages including ‘connection to the server reset’... -
Points for science courses rise dramatically News
23.08.2010 With a rise in points for 700 college course in third-level institutes throughout the country there is, in particular, a noticeable rise in the number of points required for... -
Students benefit from inquiry-based learning says education expert News
19.08.2010 The increased level of students taking on higher level maths through Project Maths is a clear demonstration that the move away from traditional teaching methods to an...Categories: -
Tech industry ‘troubled’ by fall in maths and science grades News
19.08.2010 One of Ireland’s most successful digital media firms Havok has said it is troubled by the declining participation as well as drop in students attaining A and B grades in maths... -
UCC and NUIG reject bonus points maths plan News
19.08.2010 Education Minister Mary Coughlan’s plan to introduce bonus points for higher level maths in 2012 were rejected by two major universities. -
Will Project Maths pay off? News
18.08.2010 As nervous Leaving Cert students the length and breadth of Ireland picked up their results this morning the various numbers came rolling in, with 4,300 students failing maths... -
Maths teachers need tech industry help News
18.08.2010 Because industries like technology attract the best and the brightest the problem of non-qualified teachers teaching honours maths needs to be arrested with industry help,... -
40pc of honours maths students require grinds News
16.08.2010 When it comes to higher-level maths for the Leaving Cert Engineers Ireland has found that over 40pc of students taking this subject need grinds to tackle the material. -
Bonus points won't make students take up higher level maths News
11.08.2010 A survey of Irish ordinary level maths students has found that the re-introduction of bonus points still would not be enough to make them do higher level maths, showing just how... -
Future hinges on Ireland reforming education News
15.07.2010 A top-down investment in digital education, allied with total systemic reform, is urgently needed.Tags: DCU, Communication, OECD, Skills, Leaving Certificate, Third Level, Smart Economy, Jim O'Hara, Intel, Investment -
Digital curriculum, language skills keys to future Irish workforce News
01.07.2010 We need to prepare Ireland’s workers for the jobs of tomorrow, HP Ireland MD Martin Murphy says.Categories: Education, Digital 21 -
Almost half of post-primary maths teachers not qualified for job News
17.02.2010 Forty-eight per cent of post-primary teachers of mathematics in Irish schools “did not have a mathematics teaching qualification”, a survey carried out by the University of...Categories: Government, R&D -
Rugby legend in scrum position to promote maths in schools News
21.01.2010 Irish rugby legend and engineering and maths graduate Malcolm O’Kelly will be taking time out of his busy schedule next month to volunteer his time to go back to his old school...Categories: R&D