Laughing my ass off at Brian Hayes’ comments yesterday about his proposal to introduce segregation to Irish schools. Dr. James O’Higgins-Norman, is quoted in todays Irish Independent as saying that the call for segregation was “clearly, although maybe not intentionally, racist in nature”. John Carr of the INTO said that the segregation call was “”discriminatory, […]
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Posted in Education, apologies on Dec 17th, 2007 9 Comments »
I wish to apologize to regular readers who came here expecting the latest John Waters column to be given a verbal lamping. Like the toy shop owner who has to give the bad news to the stressed out parent on Christmas Eve I can only say that our supplier has let us down.
At the end […]
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I came across this via the BBC (Gawd bless ‘em). It a new online interactive game to help educate and inform people (especially young people) about the realities of being a refugee. The website, run by the UNHCR (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees), states the point of the game as such:
In “Against […]
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I put this up here, Jed’s Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) from Grandaddy’s album “The Sophtware Slump” (2000) for no other reason than I like it so much. I came across it while having a peak at iprefertheobscureremix blog - and very nice music blog it is too.
Although I had never seen this before I […]
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According to the recently-released volume ten of the 2006 census, 87.6% of the Irish population is without a third level degree.
On 24 April 2006, there were 4,239,848 people in the Republic. Of these, 527,775 - or 12.4% - had completed a third level degree. In terms of those who hold Irish citizenship (3,559,384), […]
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… the mind of man becomes
A thousand times more beautiful than the earth
On which he dwells, above this frame of things
(Which, ‘mid all revolution in the hopes
And fears of men, doth still remain unchanged)
In beauty exalted, as it is itself
Of quality and fabric more divine. (Wordsworth. Prelude, 1805)
People are the greatest thing.
A point all […]
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“Given that the vast majority of national primary schools in the State are denominational and continue to allow students of other denominations and none to attend, there would be difficulty in proving that it is essential to maintain the ethos of a particular religion to require every student to be of a particular denomination.”
So now […]
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I should have mentioned in my post on Tuesday, about Catholic primary schools restricting the admission of non-Catholic pupils, that the real culprit in all of this is the exception written into the Equality Act 2000.
The following, taken from the Equality Authority site explain the exception.
“The Equal Status Act […]
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It’s early September, the beginning of the school year and the resulting increase in the number of cars filled with parents and their children plumps out the summer’s steady stream of traffic into fat ribbons of congestion. With this of course, we also have the news that once again there are not enough school places […]
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