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The Global Obsession With Rankings: How Should Ireland Respond?, Ellen Hazelkorn

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Entrepreneurship Education In The Third-Level Sector In Ireland, Thomas Cooney, Trudie Murray

Reports

Entrepreneurship education is now a key part of the tertiary-level educatin landscape in many countries around the globe. Institutions are creating the type of learning environments that are conducive to encouraging and supporting student enterprise and graduate entrepreneurship. Going byond notions of employability, entrepreneurship capacities enable graduates to create their own futures, exploit the opportunities that emerge in their complex and unpredicatable worlds, and better contribute to economic development and well-being. This report demonstrates that Ireland is no exception. The evidence presented illustrates that there is no shortage of entrepreneurial activity across the island. Institutions are spreading provision outside of …

Ireland: Regional Presentation, Frank Mcmahon

Presentations

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Stonehill Alumni Magazine Winter 2008, Stonehill College Office Of Communications And Media Relations

Stonehill Alumni Magazine

This issue of the magazine includes the following features:

• Alumni Explore Ireland: A group of 48 Stonehill graduates, their family members, and friends visited Ireland as part of Stonehill's inaugural Alumni Travel Program last fall. Professor Richard Finnegan '64 shared his expertise about all things Irish during the nine-day excursion.
• From Classroom to Courtroom: Professor Robert Rosenthal met with students to discuss his high profile forensic economics work at a recent Faculty Table dinner. In this Q&A, he reflects on his career, including his involvement in a current Mafia-related trial in New York City.
• Plans, Hopes & Dreams: Anticipation is …

Celtic Tiger Found In Education Jungle, Thomas Cooney

Articles

It would not cause too much debate to suggest that Ireland in the late 1950s was a depressing country. It had suffered greatly from decades of poor economic performance and the constant haemorrhaging of its population through emigration. Overcrowded classrooms and poor physical school structures meant that only 10,000 students took their Leaving Certificate in 1957 (Ferriter, 2004). Meanwhile, third-level education remained the preserve of the elite and a total of just 8,653 students were present in all of Ireland’s third-level institutions by the end of the 1950s (Ferriter, 2004).

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Technical Education, Technological Colleges And Further Education In Ireland, Frank Mcmahon

Books/Book chapters

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