Tagged: Education
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500,000 workers need to be upskilled by 2020 News
07.03.2007 An additional 500,000 people within the Irish workforce will need to be upskilled and to progress over and above their current level of education and training, the Expert Group...Tags: Education -
Heritage building site hits two-million mark News
28.02.2007 A website cataloguing the historic buildings and gardens of Ireland has received two million hits from 60,000 visitors since it was redeveloped last September.Categories: Government, New Media -
Strategists to advise on schools IT investment News
27.02.2007 Education and Science Minister Mary Hanafin TD has appointed a Strategy Group to advise her on the €252m investment in ICT for Irish schools provided under the National...Tags: Education -
Spreading the word News
23.02.2007 This week’s interviewee is Danny O’Hare (pictured) , chairman of the board of trustees of Exploration Station, the new science education centre.Categories: Careers and EmploymentTags: Education -
Exploration Station gets lift-off News
06.02.2007 Plans for Ireland’s first interactive science centre have been unveiled, with a site in Dublin already set aside for its location.Categories: Government, R&DTags: Education -
Digital divide widens for disadvantaged schools News
05.02.2007 Students in deprived areas of Ireland are at a marked disadvantage when it comes to computer literacy compared to their counterparts in more affluent areas, an online exam...Categories: R&DTags: E-learning, Education -
Cradle-to-grave education ‘key to NDP’s success’ News
24.01.2007 By 2020 an additional 500,000 people in the workforce will need to progress by at least one level of educational attainment above their current highest level, the Council of...Tags: Education, -
€6bn to be spent on science, tech and innovation News
24.01.2007 Some €6bn is to be invested in science, technology and innovation under the €184bn National Development Plan (NDP) for Ireland between 2007 and 2013, it emerged yesterday. -
Microsoft to fund PhD scholars News
11.01.2007 Microsoft is to fund four Irish PhD research students, it emerged today. Three are to receive three-year scholarships under the company’s MSR European PhD Scholarship Programme...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
€25m boost for technology subjects in schools News
01.12.2006 The implementation of technology subjects in schools was given a boost yesterday with the announcement of a €25m investment to purchase new equipment as well as the launch of a...Categories: Government, R&DTags: Education -
New grants for 50 teachers to develop online content News
02.11.2006 The TeachNet programme has awarded grants of €750 to 50 primary and post-primary teachers to help them develop online curriculum content in their subject areas.Categories: R&DTags: Education -
ICT Ireland blasts schools’ tech progress News
25.10.2006 ICT Ireland has criticised the Government for lack of progress in boosting technology in schools and has called on Minister for Education Mary Hanafin TD to make investment in...Categories: R&DTags: Education -
ThirdForce in €1m UK government deal News
25.10.2006 Irish e-learning software firm ThirdForce has won a €1m contract to provide training materials to one of the UK’s key national suppliers of care and support services.Tags: E-learning, Education, -
Large sum for sums sums up sums’ importance News
06.10.2006 The largest ever single award to mathematics research in the State has been made to a research programme at University of Limerick.Categories: R&D -
Online literacy resource launched News
05.10.2006 Google and UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) have joined forces with LitCam — the Frankfurt Book Fair literacy campaign — to launch The Literacy Project, a new...Tags: Education -
Gamers underachieve in maths — report News
05.10.2006 Children who play computer games for one hour or more a day fare less well at maths than their peers, a study published by the Department of Education and Science has found.Categories: R&DTags: Education -
Industry reaffirms need for more science graduates News
04.10.2006 Thousands of Irish students are turning their backs on high-earning jobs in Ireland’s science-based industries, a schools business and science conference heard today.Categories: R&D -
Women apply Foundation for career boost News
21.09.2006 An initiative designed to promote the advancement of women researchers in science, engineering and technology was launched at University College Cork (UCC) this week.Categories: R&D -
DIT to accredit AIB staff in new deal News
11.09.2006 AIB Group has struck a deal with Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) to provide accredited training for its newly recruited graduate IT staff.Tags: Education -
Look at positive in maths results — Engineers Ireland News
17.08.2006 Negative coverage of the Leaving Certificate maths results can turn students off higher-level maths, Engineers Ireland has warned.Categories: R&DTags: Education