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Full-Text Articles in Education
Higher Education At A Time Of Economic Crisis: Is It Good-Bye To The Celtic Tiger?, Ellen Hazelkorn
Higher Education At A Time Of Economic Crisis: Is It Good-Bye To The Celtic Tiger?, Ellen Hazelkorn
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This presentation provides an overview of the effect of the global economic crisis on Irish higher education.
What Should Be The Contribution Of Further And Higher Education In Ireland To The Current Global Economic Crisis?, Ann Conway
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This paper will be in two parts; the first section will examine the current tertiary education situation in Ireland amid the global economic crisis and will review what should education’s contribution be to help alleviate the crisis. Through doing this both the state and the market, who have interests in the academy and their graduates produced, will become part of the review, as building stronger links with the academy and the economy to help raise skills, efficiency and productivity is becoming more important in ensuring global competitiveness and retaining equality and accessibility in the academy (see Gaffikin and Morrissey, 2003: …
Trends In Higher Education: What’S Happening In Ireland, Ellen Hazelkorn
Trends In Higher Education: What’S Happening In Ireland, Ellen Hazelkorn
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This presentation provides an overview of trends in higher education policy worldwide, and their implications for Ireland.
Benefits Of Continuing Professional Development In The Visual Communications Sector In Ireland, Con Kennedy
Benefits Of Continuing Professional Development In The Visual Communications Sector In Ireland, Con Kennedy
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This research is concerned with identifying the benefits of Continuous Professional Development for the Visual Communications sector in Ireland, with the aim of establishing what benefits exist for both the employee and employer. Research is undertaken to identify CPD programmes that currently exist in other industries in Ireland for the purpose of establishing commonalities and how this may apply to the Visual Communications sector. This is achieved through a combination of literature review, desk research, surveys of employees and employers in the Visual Communications sector and a number of semi-formal interviews with representatives from various industry sectors with established CPD …
A Strategy For Small Nations In A Time Of Economic Crisis, Ellen Hazelkorn
A Strategy For Small Nations In A Time Of Economic Crisis, Ellen Hazelkorn
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This presentation presents a higher education strategy for small nations.
Global Positioning Of Irish Higher Education: The Way Forward, Ellen Hazelkorn
Global Positioning Of Irish Higher Education: The Way Forward, Ellen Hazelkorn
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This presentation addresses the question as to how Ireland should globally position itself, and what are the appropriate policies and processes that should be adopted to best enable Ireland to respond.
Giving Adult Learners A Voice After The Inquest: A Review Of A Mixed Method Approach To Educational Research, Ann Conway
Giving Adult Learners A Voice After The Inquest: A Review Of A Mixed Method Approach To Educational Research, Ann Conway
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This paper highlights the necessary application of mixed methods in educational research within the field of adult learners and lifelong learning in higher education to provide adult learners with a “voice”. The paper will introduce the reader to educational research through focusing on mixed methods and the theoretical frameworks within. Critical hermeneutic epistemology or transformative research (as espoused by Freire and Habermas in critical realism cited in Morrow and Torres, (2002)), social constructivism within phenomenology (see Vygotsky’s (1934) and Bruner (1996) work cited in Carlile and Jordan, 2005: 21-22) and pragmatism within the critical realism school (The Chicago School of …
Moving Beyond Institutional Rankings: Towards A World-Class System, Ellen Hazelkorn
Moving Beyond Institutional Rankings: Towards A World-Class System, Ellen Hazelkorn
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E-Learning And Dit’S Strategic Plan, Eileen O' Donnell
E-Learning And Dit’S Strategic Plan, Eileen O' Donnell
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This presentation explores the question can e-learning be used to enhance the student experience and further prepare students to work in industry?
Rankings And The (Re)Construction Of Knowledge, Ellen Hazelkorn
Rankings And The (Re)Construction Of Knowledge, Ellen Hazelkorn
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Utilising Research ‘Praxis’ To Enhance Teaching Practice In The Domain Of Apprenticeship Education: A Report On A Research Capacity Building Pilot Project Run In The School Of Construction Skills, Technological University Dublin, Ireland In 2008., Aidan Kenny, Niall Delaney, Aidan Ryan
Utilising Research ‘Praxis’ To Enhance Teaching Practice In The Domain Of Apprenticeship Education: A Report On A Research Capacity Building Pilot Project Run In The School Of Construction Skills, Technological University Dublin, Ireland In 2008., Aidan Kenny, Niall Delaney, Aidan Ryan
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The Technological University Dublin is one of the largest multi-level higher education providers in Ireland, catering for over 22,000 students annually. Under the 1999 Qualifications (Education and Training) Act, DIT became an awarding body in its own right. Programme provision covers apprenticeships, short continuous professional development courses, taught undergraduate and postgraduate, research MPhil and PhDs. While the Institute’s traditional mission1 was focused on teaching and learning in the field of advanced technical vocational education and training (TVET), over the last decade the importance of developing a research informed culture has become prominent in the strategic policy development of the Institute. …
Recognition Of Prior Learning In Irish Culinary Arts, Dermot Seberry
Recognition Of Prior Learning In Irish Culinary Arts, Dermot Seberry
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The emerging agenda for higher education (HE) in Europe promotes lifelong learning, social inclusion, wider participation, employability and partnership working with community organisations. Consequently, higher education authorities are increasingly recognising the significant knowledge, skills and understanding which can be developed as a result of learning opportunities found at work through individual activities and personal interests. The accreditation of learning and prior achievement is now one of the central functions of the Higher Education Authority (HEA, 2007). In exercising this function, higher education providers are increasingly considering how learning that has taken place in a range of contexts, may be assessed …
Eportfolios: Fit For Purpose?, Jen Harvey, Roisin Donnelly
Eportfolios: Fit For Purpose?, Jen Harvey, Roisin Donnelly
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Widening Participation In Higher Education And The Resultant Diversity Of Learners: A Review Of Government Policies, The Academy And Market Demands That May Influence This Trajectory., Ann Conway
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This paper will look at participation in higher education in Ireland and the current focus of encouraging students from non-traditional and underrepresented groups to understand the ‘why’ of the widening participation debate in higher education. It will then review the evolution of government policies in relation to higher education and in particular of widening access and participation, for example Bologna and Erasmus at EU level and the encouragement of mobility of students within the EU. The resultant shift and change in higher education policies to focus on widening participation has changed the traditional view of the academy which was once …