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Ó Tuama, Séamus; O'Sullivan, Siobhán – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
Cork, the Republic of Ireland's second most populous city, is one of 12 UNESCO Learning Cities globally. Becoming a learning city requires a sophisticated audit of education, learning and other socio-economic indicators. It also demands that cities become proactively engaged in delivering to the objectives set by the "Beijing Declaration on…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Improvement, International Organizations, Program Design, Program Implementation
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Moore, Niamh; Gilmartin, Mary – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
Internationally, recognition is growing that the transition between post-primary and higher education is raising a number of challenges for both students and educators. Simultaneously with growing class sizes, resources have become more constrained and there is a new set of expectations from the "net generation" (Mohanna, 2007, p. 211…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Pilot Projects, Human Geography, Online Courses
McKenna, Adele – AONTAS The National Adult Learning Organisation, 2007
In January 2007 the Department of Education and Science approached AONTAS about conducting preliminary research into the lifelong learning needs of older people in Ireland. The findings of the research will be submitted to inform the Department's plans to address the educational needs of older people. In drafting this discussion paper, AONTAS has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Adult Learning, Educational Needs
Shannon, Denise – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2005
The Education Equality Initiative (EEI) has been established by the Department of Education and Science in an attempt to address educational disadvantage through the strategic allocation of funding to promote equality of access, treatment and outcomes within a lifelong learning framework for individuals and groups. The aim of this initiative is to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Citizenship, Pilot Projects, Educationally Disadvantaged
Maguire, Terry; O'Donoghue, John – 2001
The newly constituted further education sector in Ireland was developed by the National Council for Vocational Awards. The mathematics for this sector was introduced as Mathematical Methods Level 2 on a pilot basis. The standard module's level proved to be too high, based on high failure rates. A review of the mathematics provision initiated these…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Articulation (Education), Course Content, Curriculum Development
Eurydice, 2004
The national contributions contained in this paper and on the Eurydice website formed the basis for the comparative study on the integration at school of immigrant children in Europe. Each contribution has exactly the same structure with four main sections entitled as follows: (1) National definitions and demographic context of immigration; (2)…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries, Educational Change