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Student Retention In Third Level - Have The First Year Experience And College Interventions Impacted Student Retention?, Anne Hurley
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The focus of this paper is on exploring the impact of interventions during the first year of college. The paper considers the performance of students and their points level at entry, their participation in structured learning classes, tutorials etc. and their gender.
This analysis will inform the School of Hospitality Management and Tourism strategy around the first year experience. It is also hoped it would provide valuable insights for the Institute as a whole and for developing TU4Dublin first year experience strategy.
The school to date has prioritised enhancing student retention in first year with particular emphasis on the first …
The Technological University Dublin Placement Experience Partnership (Dit-Pep) Framework, Kevin Griffin, Sheila Flanagan, Elizabeth Kennedy-Burke, Stephanie Bourke
The Technological University Dublin Placement Experience Partnership (Dit-Pep) Framework, Kevin Griffin, Sheila Flanagan, Elizabeth Kennedy-Burke, Stephanie Bourke
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The School of Hospitality Management and Tourism at the Technological University Dublin (DIT) developed this best practice framework for managing work placement, using the tourism industry as a case study. However, the DIT‐PEP (Placement Experience Partnership) Framework has been devised so that it can be applied across other sectors.
This report presents the DIT‐PEP Framework and provides a summary of the approach used in its development.
Educating For Sustainability: Creating A Comprehensive, Coherent And Compelling Approach - Guidelines For Sustainability Standards And Resource Materials, Kevin Griffin
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In 2007, Fáilte Ireland's Environment Unit, in collaboration with the Education Policy Section,commissioned a review of sustainability content in tourism education and training programmes at NQAI levels 4-8 throughout the State with a view to recommending improvements where necessary.
The review, carried out on Fáilte Ireland's behalf by the Tourism Research Centre of the Technological University Dublin, was - in terms of breadth and depth - the first of its kind to be undertaken at a national level, not only in Ireland but in any of the other countries surveyed during the course of the review.