The Irish Education system. Bork central

Open Window · **Joined:** Jan 1, 1970 **Posts:** 23317

Poacher turned gamekeeper wrote:

It's very important that this stuff is opposed and not allowed gain traction as it has elsewhere.

As an aside I wonder what is the nationality of the majority of Irish Times journalists.....and (assuming most are Irish) whether any of them are prepared to stand aside in the interest of diversity?

Indeed, given that Catholicism is the largest religion in Ireland, does the logic of their own diversity mantra thereby require that a significant number of practising Catholics be employed therein so as to ensure their workforce is representative of the broader population ?

Over the Irish Sea with get lesson in how DIVERSITY programmes for children can be taught in the classroom.

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Six year old school children taught to write LGBT "love letters" in the UK

https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/sta ... 6213135361

ps200306 · **Joined:** Apr 1, 2010 **Posts:** 10934

Open Window wrote:

Over the Irish Sea with get lesson in how DIVERSITY programmes for children can be taught in the classroom.

Quote:

Six year old school children taught to write LGBT "love letters" in the UK

https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/sta ... 6213135361

Hah. Tame.

https://twitter.com/acabaramosnicks/sta ... 9886724096

Lefournier3 · **Joined:** May 21, 2017 **Posts:** 233

FreeFallin wrote:

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And not a mention that the vast vast majority of teachers are women. You'll note that the 2 female authors don't mention that most obvious fact but such are the times we live in

Even the teachers' unions want a study into the overwhelming gender imbalance among primary teachers and the growing imbalance among secondary teachers.
http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-imbalan ... 4-Oct2016/

It is a Europe-wide phenomenon but, no, the Irish Research Council prefers to fund researchers in NUI Galway who have built their careers researching diversity without addressing this (male) elephant in the room.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-sc ... inireland/

Years of publicly-funded research to tell us that Irish teachers are almost all white!!!

I see some work on socio-economic background which sounds very relevant - many teachers used to come from small farms but I suspect the training colleges are now almost exclusively middle-class. Nothing will be done about that either - first we must get "diversity"

This is not pure codology - places in teacher training will be reserved for those who are "diverse" (hint: not males)

The media will never challenge them but peer recognition will surely come - an Ignoble nomination can't be far off!
https://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

FreeFallin · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2018 1:59 pm

Is it possible to find out who funded this 'research'? That could tell a story

Was it this crowd who I see at the bottom of that NUIG page - Irish Research Council Research?

Lefournier3 · **Joined:** May 21, 2017 **Posts:** 233

The High Court has thrown a spanner in the Leaving Cert/CAO works.

All the exam papers from almost 55,000 students have to be marked, collated and transmitted to students before the CAO can offer them college places which start in September. Now, a High Court judge says the appeals have to be considered and decided before final college places are allocated. His Lordship (with no sense of irony) was shocked by the idea that someone would have to wait over a month for a decision on their appeal.

This case concerns a simple error in totting up the marks - a common problem, it seems, and one which any self-respecting organisation should have tackled long ago -but it appears the judge is not limiting himself to those cases. He says he will hand down a written judgement - I can only guess at his reasoning.

In recognition of his visionary stance, he should be appointed Chair of the State Examinations Commission. :mrgreen:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/leav ... -1.3643644

yoganmahew · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:17 am

Lefournier3 wrote:

He says he will hand down a written judgement - I can only guess at his reasoning.

It's easier to appeal against if they mark it wrong? :-GC

Inis Man · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:44 am

Open Window wrote:

Poacher turned gamekeeper wrote:

It's very important that this stuff is opposed and not allowed gain traction as it has elsewhere.

As an aside I wonder what is the nationality of the majority of Irish Times journalists.....and (assuming most are Irish) whether any of them are prepared to stand aside in the interest of diversity?

Indeed, given that Catholicism is the largest religion in Ireland, does the logic of their own diversity mantra thereby require that a significant number of practising Catholics be employed therein so as to ensure their workforce is representative of the broader population ?

Over the Irish Sea with get lesson in how DIVERSITY programmes for children can be taught in the classroom.

Quote:

Six year old school children taught to write LGBT "love letters" in the UK

https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/sta ... 6213135361

Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!

dolanbaker · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:03 pm

dolanbaker · **Posted:** Sat Sep 29, 2018 12:04 pm

dolanbaker wrote:

Inis Man wrote:

Open Window wrote:

Poacher turned gamekeeper wrote:

It's very important that this stuff is opposed and not allowed gain traction as it has elsewhere.

As an aside I wonder what is the nationality of the majority of Irish Times journalists.....and (assuming most are Irish) whether any of them are prepared to stand aside in the interest of diversity?

Indeed, given that Catholicism is the largest religion in Ireland, does the logic of their own diversity mantra thereby require that a significant number of practising Catholics be employed therein so as to ensure their workforce is representative of the broader population ?

Over the Irish Sea with get lesson in how DIVERSITY programmes for children can be taught in the classroom.

Quote:

Six year old school children taught to write LGBT "love letters" in the UK

https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/sta ... 6213135361

Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!

Another brick in the wall, with the way children are being taught today, it's no wonder why they see older people as being "so out of touch!"

Lefournier3 · **Joined:** May 21, 2017 **Posts:** 233

yoganmahew wrote:

Lefournier3 wrote:

He says he will hand down a written judgement - I can only guess at his reasoning.

It's easier to appeal against if they mark it wrong? :-GC

Seems there'll be no appeal - Minister Bruton promises to fix the system which his Department spent four days defending in the High Court (or did the State Examinations Commission go on a solo run :oops:

)

The system was creaking at the seams. UCD brought in a deadline of 30 September this year, to stop students joining a course later after they successfully appealed their results. How were the students supposed to catch up with over a month of missed lectures?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/educati ... -1.3643905

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