Tagged: Maths
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Google Doodle honours lawyer and mathematician Fermat News
17.08.2011 Internet search giant Google is tipping its hat to lawyer and mathematician Pierre de Fermat today, with a Google Doodle on its homepage resembling a chalkboard. -
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... -
64pc of Leaving Cert maths students want smaller class sizes News
16.08.2011 A new survey by Engineers Ireland of 180 maths students who sat the Leaving Cert this year has revealed that 64pc believe maths class sizes should be halved.Categories: Science, Jobs, Investments, Intellectual Property, Engineering, Education, Economy, Computers -
Convert the grads to fill jobs News
14.07.2011 With 2,500 vacancies in the tech industry in Ireland, unemployed graduates should be able to convert and get jobs, ICT Ireland chair Regina Moran says.Categories: Upskilling, Training, Jobs, Graduate, Education, Economy, Development, Careers and Employment -
Leaving Cert honours maths uptake hits record low - report News
07.06.2011 Just 10,435 students have registered to undertake the higher-level maths Leaving Cert exam this week, the lowest figure ever recorded by the State Exams Commission. -
Educators express ‘raging impatience’ to begin reform News
02.06.2011 How many people really understood the shockwaves that were felt through the teaching profession in Ireland when the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)...Tags: Fujitsu , ICT Ireland, computing, Regina Moran, Jerome Morrissey, Eamonn Sinnott, Intel, Enda Kenny, Ireland, Languages, Maths, PISA, -
Demonware boss warns of skills gap in Irish computer science courses News
27.05.2011 Tony Kelly, CEO of Demonware, pointed out a huge skills gap between Irish and Canadian graduates of computer science programmes, saying they hired 95pc of Canadian interns...Tags: Tony Kelly, Demonware, Computer science, Maths, Education, Graduates, Ireland, Dublin, Software, Activision, Jobs, Skills -
75pc of Irish ICT employers have job vacancies News
26.05.2011 Three-quarters of Irish ICT employers say they have vacancies in their companies. More than 50pc of these have more than 20 jobs available in their firms, the chair of ICT...Categories: Software & Web Development, Science, R&D, Jobs, Hardware, Education, Economy, Digital 21 -
Taoiseach says 12.5pc tax will remain, promises education reform News
26.05.2011 Ireland will not budge on its 12.5pc corporate tax rate, Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny promised today. He said to change it would represent a massive breach of trust to investors.Tags: Enda Kenny, Foreign Direct Investment, Investment, Innovation, OECD, PISA, Maths, Science, Intel -
IBM's strategy for growth News
26.05.2011 A 30-year veteran with IBM, country manager Peter O’Neill says strategic thinking is what helped grow the company to more than 3,000 people in Ireland.Tags: IBM, Business growth, Maths, Science, Science Foundation Ireland, IRCSET, Skills, Smart Cities -
Emphasis on skills-based learning needed – Chambers Ireland News
26.04.2011 Chambers Ireland is calling for an increased focus on innovation, design and creativity in education to deliver the necessary skills to protect future economic competitiveness. -
Concern over major ICT spending cuts in Irish schools News
16.12.2010 Key figures in Ireland’s ICT sector have expressed concern over major cuts in State ICT spending in the recent Budget - down from €63m in 2010 to €1.5m projected for 2011. -
Alarm at Ireland's falling maths performance in PISA study News
07.12.2010 PISA, the OECD group responsible for measuring maths and literacy performance by students worldwide, has found Ireland significantly below the OECD average for maths, causing...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Science, Investments, Government, Education, Careers and Employment -
Biggest number of entries for BT Young Scientists in 47 years News
08.11.2010 The 2011 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition received the highest number of entries in its 47-year history, with a record-breaking 3,943 students across Ireland taking... -
World’s first algebra app for iPad made in Dublin News
20.09.2010 Digital education giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has unveiled a year-long pilot of the first-ever full curriculum algebra app for the iPad. The app will be piloted in school...Categories: Software, R&D, Mobility, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital 21, Development, Design, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Global innovations in the classroom News
14.09.2010 Pushing the classroom into the digital age has truly been a global effort. -
Bonus points for higher-level maths officially introduced News
12.10.2010 All seven universities in Ireland have now backed bonus points for higher-level maths in the Leaving Cert. Students will now receive 25 extra points for the subject level. -
Trinity launches new degree course in nanoscience News
13.09.2010 Trinity College Dublin has announced a new course, allowing students to study nanoscience at an undergraduate level. -
